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English historical semantics

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This book offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics and English Language 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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Edinburgh University Press
0748644784 / 9780748644780
Hardback
422
31/10/2015
United Kingdom
English
224 pages : illustrations (black and white)
22 cm
Published in Scotland.