Description
| Product ID: | 9780748644773 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - A... |
| Title: | English Historical Semantics |
| Authors: | Author: Christian Kay, Kathryn Allan |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Historical and comparative linguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book offers 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-10-31 |
