Current Methods in Historical Semantics /

Current Methods in Historical Semantics / / ed. by Kathryn Allan, Justyna A. Robinson.

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Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes. The volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of empirical research techniques and theoretical perspectives that currently inform work across t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Allan, Kathryn,
Clark, Brady,
Durkin, Philip,
Geeraerts, Dirk,
Gevaert, Caroline,
Gries, Stefan Th.,
Győri, Gábor,
Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard,
Hegedűs, Irén,
Hilpert, Martin,
Kaufmann, Stefan,
Kay, Christian J.,
Kerremans, Daphné,
Koch, Peter,
Nevalainen, Terttu,
Robinson, Justyna A.,
Sagi, Eyal,
Schmid, Hans-Jörg,
Speelman, Dirk,
Stegmayr, Susanne,
HerausgeberIn:
Allan, Kathryn,
Robinson, Justyna A.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 73
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Physical Description:1 online resource (347 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction: Exploring the ‘‘state of the art’’ in historical semantics
  • Section 1: Data and sources
  • Using OED data as evidence for researching semantic change
  • Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED
  • The NeoCrawler: identifying and retrieving neologisms from the internet and monitoring ongoing change
  • Commentary: Data and Sources
  • Section 2: Corpus-based methods
  • How anger rose: Hypothesis testing in diachronic semantics
  • Diachronic collostructional analysis: How to use it and how to deal with confounding factors
  • Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis
  • Commentary: Corpus-based methods
  • Section 3: Theoretical Approaches
  • A sociolinguistic approach to semantic change
  • A pragmatic approach to historical semantics, with special reference to markers of clausal negation in Medieval French
  • The pervasiveness of contiguity and metonymy in semantic change
  • A cognitive approach to the methodology of semantic reconstruction: The case of Eng. chin and knee
  • Commentary: Theoretical Approaches
  • Subject index
  • Index of word forms and concepts

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