By Julie Coleman (Ed.), Christian J. Kay (Ed.)
The papers during this quantity express the variety and path of present paintings in historic semantics and word-studies. there's a robust concentration all through on semantic switch and lexical innovation, interpreted inside of a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. a number of the papers draw at the notable variety of digital assets now on hand to historic linguists, particularly corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies and thesauruses, and convey the consequences that those have had in stimulating new traces of analysis or the re-interpretation of prior conclusions. Cognitive semantics, and particularly prototype thought, emerges as a demanding theoretical framework for a lot present study. the quantity encompasses a choice from papers awarded on the tenth foreign convention on English old Linguistics (10ICEHL). They contain paintings on old lexicography and an account of the workshop on digital dictionary assets, akin to the Revised Oxford English Dictionary, which shaped the centrepiece of the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium.
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