Current Methods in Historical Semantics
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Kathryn Allan, Justyna A. Robinson
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Current Methods in Historical Semantics
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De Gruyter Mouton
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9783110252903
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Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
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1
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CHF 159.40
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Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
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English
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355
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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 the discipline of historical semantics. In addition to emphasising the use of new technology, the potential of current theoretical models (e.g. within variationist, sociolinguistic or cognitive frameworks) is explored along the way.
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Kathryn Allan
, University College London, UK;
Justyna A. Robinson
, University of Sussex, UK.
Preface
6
Table of contents
8
Introduction: Exploring the “state of the art” in historical semantics
10
Section 1: Data and sources
24
Using OED data as evidence
26
Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED
50
The NeoCrawler: identifying and retrieving neologisms from the internet and monitoring on-going change
68
Commentary
106
Section 2: Corpus-based methods
116
How anger rose: Hypothesis testing in diachronic semantics
118
Diachronic collostructional analysis: How to use it and how to deal with confounding factors
142
Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis
170
Commentary
193
Section 3: Theoretical Approaches
206
A sociolinguistic perspective on semantic change
208
A pragmatic approach to historical semantics, with special reference to markers of clausal negation in Medieval French
242
The pervasiveness of contiguity and metonymy in semantic change
268
A cognitive approach to the methodology of semantic reconstruction: The case of English chin and knee
322
Commentary
343
Subject index
352
Index of word forms and concepts
355
