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.


Format Häftad Omfång 224 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Edinburgh University Press Utgivningsdatum 2015-10-31 ISBN 9780748644773