English Historical Semantics
(Part of the Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced Series)
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This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. It uses a number of case studies to provide insights into collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change. Students will become proficient in the key concepts in semantic change by applying ideas from theoretical semantics...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0748644776
ISBN13:9780748644773
Release Date:October 2015
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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