Current Methods in Historical Semantics

Current Methods in Historical Semantics

by Allan, Kathryn, (Kathryn L.) Robinson, Justyna A.

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Preface; Introduction: Exploring the "state of the art" in historical semantics; Section 1: Data and sources; Using OED data as evidence; Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED; The NeoCrawler: identifying and retrieving neologisms from the internet and monitoring on-going change; Commentary; Section 2: Corpus-based methods; How anger rose: Hypothesis testing in diachronic semantics; Diachronic collostructional analysis: How to use it and how to deal with confounding factors; Tracing se…

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  • Full title :Current Methods in Historical Semantics / ed. by Kathryn Allan, Justyna A. Robinson.

Summary

Preface; Introduction: Exploring the "state of the art" in historical semantics; Section 1: Data and sources; Using OED data as evidence; Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED; The NeoCrawler: identifying and retrieving neologisms from the internet and monitoring on-going change; Commentary; Section 2: Corpus-based methods; How anger rose: Hypothesis testing in diachronic semantics; Diachronic collostructional analysis: How to use it and how to deal with confounding factors; Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis; Commentary; Section 3: Theoretical Approaches. - A sociolinguistic perspective on semantic changeA pragmatic approach to historical semantics, with special reference to markers of clausal negation in Medieval French; The pervasiveness of contiguity and metonymy in semantic change; A cognitive approach to the methodology of semantic reconstruction: The case of English chin and knee; Commentary; Subject index; Index of word forms and concepts. - 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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):De Gruyter Mouton
  • Place of Publication:Berlin
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (VIII, 348 p.)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:3110252902, 9783110252903, 9783110252880, 3110252880
  • oclc:ocn826680966
  • LC Classification:P325.5.H57 .C878 2011
  • Dewey Decimal:417.7

Subjects

Congressen (vorm) English language -- Semantics, Historic… Historische semantiek Semantics, Historical Sémantique historique

Writers

Allan, Kathryn, (Kathryn L.) Robinson, Justyna A.

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