Historical semantics, historical word formation / edited by Jacek Fisiak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisiak, Jacek.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 29

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series ; v.29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics.

Lexicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton Publishers, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Historical Semantics - Historical Word-Formation".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

List of participants

The ordering of nominal compounds in Irish / AHLQVIST, ANDERS

The semantic development of will / AIJMER, KARIN

Semantic shifts in Korean honorification / BAEK, EUNG-JIN

Prefixal negation of English adjectives: psycholinguistic dimensions of productivity / BALDI, PHILIP / BRODERICK, VICTOR / PALERMO, DAVID S.

Cross-linguistic comparison and the development of grammatical meaning Suppletion in word-formation / BYBEE, JOAN L. / PAGLIUCA, WILLIAM / DRESSLER, WOLFGANG U.

Derivation, inflection, and semantic change in the development of the Chukchi verb paradigm / COMRIE, BERNARD

Etymology and the lexical semantics of the Old English preverb be- / FRASER, THOMAS

Cognitive restrictions on the structure of semantic change / GEERAERTS, DIRK

On the origin of the suffix -ly / GUIMIER, CLAUDE

Gender systems and semanticity: two case histories from Bantu / HERBERT, ROBERT Κ.

Segmental phonology and word-formation: agency and abstraction in the history of Irish / HICKEY, RAYMOND

Deverbal nouns in Old and Modern English: from stem-formation to word-formation / KASTOVSKY, DIETER

Where do concessives come from? On the development of concessive connectives / KÖNIG, EKKEHARD

The influence of semantic fields on semantic change / LEHRER, ADRIENNE

On semantic change in a dynamic model of language / LEWANDOWSKA-TOMASZCZYK, BARBARA

Contact-induced semantic change and innovation / LI, CHARLES Ν.

Inferential features in historical semantics / LIPKA, LEONHARD

Diachronic irreversibility in word-formation and semantics / LÜDTKE, HELMUT

Semantic development of borrowings / MAŃCZAK, WITOLD

Etymology and semantics. Theoretical considerations apropos of an analysis of the etymological problem of Spanish MAÑERO, MAÑERIA / MARCOS-MARIN, FRANCISCO

Lexical and syntactic semantics in historical aspect / MUKHIN, ANATOLIJ Μ.

The synchrony-diachrony division in wordformation / PILCH, HERBERT

A historical perspective on the productivity of the suffixes -ness and -ity / RIDDLE, ELIZABETH Μ.

Word-formation, learnèd vocabulary and linguistic maturation / RITCHIE, WILLIAM C.

Laʒamon's compound nouns and their morphology / SAUER, HANS

On the functional development of repetition in Antiguan Creole morphology, syntax, and discourse / SHEPHERD, SUSAN

Modality and semantic change / SILVA-CORVALÁN, CARMEN

The lexicological analysis of older stages of languages / STRAUSS, JÜRGEN

'Left' or 'right'? / WINTER, WERNER

Index of authors

Index of languages

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110850178

3110850176

OCLC:

922945264