The Development of the Concept of Smell in American English: A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy

by Daniela Pettersson-Traba

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions in meaning between near-synonyms. However, most studies have dealt with the semantic structure of sets of near-synonyms from a synchronic perspective, while their diachronic evolution generally has been neglected. Against this backdrop, the aim...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110792206
• ISBN13: 9783110792201
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"