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This book offers an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change.
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English Historical Semantics, Christian Kayser
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- English Historical Semantics
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Christian Kayser
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0748644776
- ISBN13
- 9780748644773
- Description
- This book offers an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change.