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Lexicology, semantics, and lexicography : selected papers from the fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998 / edited by Julie Coleman, Christian J. Kay.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- G.L. Brook Symposium, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- G.L. Brook Symposium (4th : 1998 : Manchester, England)
- G.L. Brook Symposium.
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 194.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 194
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lexicology--Congresses.
- Lexicology.
- Semantics--Congresses.
- Semantics.
- Lexicography--Congresses.
- Lexicography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable range of electronic resources now available to historical linguists, notably corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies and thesauruses, and show the effects that these have had in stimulating new lines of research or the re-interpretation of previous conclusions. Cognitive semantics, and especially prototype theory, emerges as a challenging theoretical framework for much current research. The volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL). They include work on historical lexicography and an account of the workshop on electronic dictionary resources, such as the Revised Oxford English Dictionary, which formed the centrepiece of the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium.
- Contents:
- LEXICOLOGY, SEMANTICS AND LEXICOGRAPHY
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC Data
- Contents
- Introduction
- G L Brook: 1910-1987
- List of Contributors
- Lexical Gaps, Cognition and Linguistic Change
- Folk-Etymology: Haphazard Perversion or Shrewd Analogy?
- Mechanisms of Semantic Change in Nouns of Cognition: a General Model?
- Historical Semantics and Historical Lexicography: will the twain ever meet?
- Strange Linguists: The Cant and Slang Dictionary Tradition
- Lexical Choices in an Early Galilean Translation
- Grund to Hrof: Aspects of the Old English Semantics of Building and Architecture
- Five Hundred Years of Love: a Prototype-Semantic Analysis
- The Vocabulary of CONSENT in Middle English
- The Discourse Motivations for Neologising: Action Nominalization in the History of English
- The Vernacularization of the Negative Prefix dis- in Early Modern English
- Brook Symposium on the Revised OED and English Historical Lexicography: A Report
- Author and Subject Index
- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612163746
- 9781282163744
- 1282163744
- 9789027299611
- 9027299617
- OCLC:
- 70765802
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