Historical Semantics - Historical Word-Formation / / ed. by Jacek Fisiak.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 29
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Physical Description:1 online resource (607 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Preface
  • List of participants
  • The ordering of nominal compounds in Irish
  • The semantic development of will
  • Semantic shifts in Korean honorification
  • Prefixal negation of English adjectives: psycholinguistic dimensions of productivity
  • Cross-linguistic comparison and the development of grammatical meaning Suppletion in word-formation
  • Derivation, inflection, and semantic change in the development of the Chukchi verb paradigm
  • Etymology and the lexical semantics of the Old English preverb be-
  • Cognitive restrictions on the structure of semantic change
  • On the origin of the suffix -ly
  • Gender systems and semanticity: two case histories from Bantu
  • Segmental phonology and word-formation: agency and abstraction in the history of Irish
  • Deverbal nouns in Old and Modern English: from stem-formation to word-formation
  • Where do concessives come from? On the development of concessive connectives
  • The influence of semantic fields on semantic change
  • On semantic change in a dynamic model of language
  • Contact-induced semantic change and innovation
  • Inferential features in historical semantics
  • Diachronic irreversibility in word-formation and semantics
  • Semantic development of borrowings
  • Etymology and semantics. Theoretical considerations apropos of an analysis of the etymological problem of Spanish MAÑERO, MAÑERIA
  • Lexical and syntactic semantics in historical aspect
  • The synchrony-diachrony division in wordformation
  • A historical perspective on the productivity of the suffixes -ness and -ity
  • Word-formation, learnèd vocabulary and linguistic maturation
  • Laʒamon's compound nouns and their morphology
  • On the functional development of repetition in Antiguan Creole morphology, syntax, and discourse
  • Modality and semantic change
  • The lexicological analysis of older stages of languages
  • 'Left' or 'right'?
  • Index of authors
  • Index of languages