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English Historical Semantics. (Record no. 103913)

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International Standard Book Number 9780748644797
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781474409124
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Classification number PE1585 -- .K39 2015eb
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 422
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kay, Christian.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title English Historical Semantics.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Edinburgh :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Edinburgh University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2015.
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2015.
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Extent 1 online resource (189 pages)
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A brief history of the English lexicon -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Old English (OE: 700-1150) -- 2.3 Middle English (ME: 1150-1500) -- 2.4 Early Modern English (EModE: 1500-1750) -- 2.5 Late Modern English (LModE: 1750 to present day) -- 2.6 Conclusion: The present day -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 3 Categories of meaning -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Traditional approaches to Semantics -- 3.3 Categories and prototypes -- 3.4 Domains and frames -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 4 Tracing the development of individual words -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Introducing the OED -- 4.3 What the OED tells us -- 4.4 Some other historical dictionaries -- 4.5 Historical corpora -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 5 How and why words change meaning -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The significance of meaning change -- 5.3 Studying semantic change -- 5.4 The process of semantic change -- 5.5 Categories of meaning change -- 5.6 Grammaticalisation -- 5.7 Why do words change meaning? -- 5.8 Conclusion -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 6 Larger categories -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A brief history of thesauruses -- 6.3 The structure of thesauruses -- 6.4 Using HTOED -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 7 English colour terms: A case study C. P. Biggam -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 How to describe colour -- 7.3 What are basic colour terms? -- 7.4 The evolution of basic colour categories -- 7.5 The development of colour terms in English -- 7.6 The changing nature of a basic category: BLUE -- 7.7 Summary -- 7.8 Conclusion -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 8 Language and culture -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Linguistics and anthropology -- 8.3 Pronouns of address -- 8.4 Kinship -- 8.5 Time.
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Formatted contents note 8.6 Conclusion -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 9 Metaphor and metonymy -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Metaphor in language and thought -- 9.3 Another kind of mapping: Metonymy -- 9.4 Metaphor and motivation -- 9.5 Metonymy and motivation -- 9.6 Conclusion -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 10 The big picture and a look ahead -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The big picture -- 10.3 Green as an example -- 10.4 Looking ahead -- Glossary of key terms -- References -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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..
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590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English language--Semantics, Historical.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Allan, Kathryn L.
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Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Kay, Christian
Title English Historical Semantics
Place, publisher, and date of publication Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2015
International Standard Book Number 9781474409124
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Uniform title Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4306092">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4306092</a>
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