TY - BOOK AU - Kay,Christian AU - Allan,Kathryn AU - Biggam,C.P. TI - English Historical Semantics T2 - Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAA SN - 9780748644797 AV - PE1585 .K39 2015 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - English language KW - Semantics, Historical KW - Language & Linguistics KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of figures --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations and conventions --; 1 Introduction --; 2 A brief history of the English lexicon --; 3 Categories of meaning --; 4 Tracing the development of individual words --; 5 How and why words change meaning --; 6 Larger categories --; 7 English colour terms: A case study --; 8 Language and culture --; 9 Metaphor and metonymy --; 10 The big picture and a look ahead --; Glossary of key terms --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - An overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semanticsThis 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. It uses a number of case studies to provide insights into collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change. Students will become proficient in the key concepts in semantic change by applying ideas from theoretical semantics to historical data. They will also cover recent work at the intersections between historical semantics and other disciplines.Focuses primarily on Lexical Semantics – the study of word meaningOffers a solid grounding in the basic methodology for corpus data analysisFeatures extended case studies on colour and kinship termsIncludes exercises and suggestions for further reading in every chapter UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748644797 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748644797 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748644797/original ER -