Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography
Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998
Published on 15. July 2000
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249 pages
978-90-272-3701-9 (ISBN)
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The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable range of electronic resources now available to historical linguists, notably corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies and thesauruses, and show the effects that these have had in stimulating new lines of research or the re-interpretation of previous conclusions. Cognitive semantics, and especially prototype theory, emerges as a challenging theoretical framework for much current research. The volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL). They include work on historical lexicography and an account of the workshop on electronic dictionary resources, such as the Revised Oxford English Dictionary, which formed the centrepiece of the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium.
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English
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Amsterdam
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Height: 225 mm
Width: 154 mm
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480 gr
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978-90-272-3701-9 (9789027237019)
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Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998
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1. Introduction; 2. Brook Memoir by Alan Shelston; 3. List of Contributors; 4. Lexical Gaps, Cognition and Linguistic Change (by Fischer, Andreas); 5. Folk-Etymology: Haphazard Perversion or Shrewd Analogy? (by Rundblad, Gabriella); 6. Mechanisms of Semantic Change in Nouns of Cognition: a General Model? (by Koivisto-Alanko, Paivi); 7. Historical Semantics and Historical Lexicography: will the twain ever meet? (by Kay, Christian); 8. Strange Linguists: the Cant and Slang Dictionary Tradition (by Coleman, Julie); 9. Lexical Choices in an Early Galilean Translation (by Gotti, Maurizio); 10. Grund to Hrof: Aspects of the Old English Semantics of Building and Architecture (by Biggam, Carole P.); 11. Five Hundred Years of Love: a Prototype-Semantic Analysis (by Tissari, Heli); 12. The Vocabulary of Consent in Middle English (by Sylvester, Louise); 13. The Discourse Motivations for Neologising: Action Nominalization in the History of English (by Cowie, Claire); 14. The Vernacularization of the Negative Prefix Dis-in Early Modern English (by McConchie, R.W.); 15. Brook Symposium Edited by Christian Kay; 16. Author and Subject Index