English Historical Semantics

by Kathryn Allan, Christian Kay, Kathryn L Allan

Book Overview

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"