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A CHANGING WORLD OF WORDS: STUDIES IN ENGLISH HISTORICAL LEXICOGRAPHY, LEXICOLOGY AND SEMANTICS

Series Title: Costerus Vol. 141

Publication Year: 2002

Publisher: Rodopi 
           http://www.rodopi.nl/

Book URL: http://www.rodopi.nl/ntalpha.asp?BookId=COS+141&type=new&letter=

Editor: Javier E. Díaz Vera 

Hardback: ISBN: 9042013303, Pages: XXI,610 pp., Price: Euro 125/$ 125
Comment: 

Abstract:

CONTENTS:

Javier E. DÍAZ VERA : Lexicography, semantics and lexicology in
English historical linguistics. 

1. Dictionaries of Early English.

Francisco CORTÉS RODRÍGUEZ and Ricardo MAIRAL USÓN: A preliminary
design for a syntactic dictionary of Old English on semantic
principles. 

Javier E. DÍAZ VERA: The semantic architecture of the Old English
verbal lexicon: A historical-lexicographical proposal.

Pamela FABER and Juan Gabriel VÁZQUEZ GONZÁLEZ: Adapting
functional-lexematic methodology to the structuring of Old English
verbs: A programmatic proposal.

Christian J. KAY and Irené WOTHERSPOON: Turning the dictionary inside
out: Some issues in the compilation of a historical thesaurus.

Louise SYLVESTER and Jane ROBERTS: Word studies on early English:
Contexts for a thesaurus of Middle English. 

2. Early Dictionaries of English.

Maurizio GOTTI: The origin of 17th century canting terms.

Anne MCDERMOTT: Early dictionaries of English and historical corpora:
In search of hard words. 

3. Semantic Change and Reconstruction.

Isabel de la CRUZ CABANILLAS and Cristina TEJEDOR MARTÍNEZ: The HORSE
family : On the evolution of the field and its metaphorization
process.

Malgorzata FABISZAK: A semantic analysis of FEAR, GRIEF and ANGER
words in Old English.

Caroline GEVAERT: The evolution of the lexical and conceptual field of
ANGER in Old and Middle English.

Päivi KOIVISTO-ALANKO: Prototypes in semantic change: A diachronic
perspective on abstract nouns.

Manuela ROMANO POZO: A morphodynamic interpretation of synonymy and
polysemy in Old English.

Juan Gabriel VÁZQUEZ GONZÁLEZ: Using diachrony to predict and arrange
the past: Giving and transferring landed property in Anglo-Saxon
times. 

4. Lexical Variation and Change in the History of English.

Merja BLACK STENROOS: Words for MAN in the transmission of Piers
Plowman.

Claire COWIE and Christianne DALTON-PUFFER: Diachronic word-formation
and studying changes in productivity over time: Theoretical and
methodological considerations.

Eulalio FERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ: The cognitive etymological search for
lexical traces of conceptual mappings: Analysis of the
lexical-conceptual domain of the verbs of POSSESSION.

Manfred MARKUS: The Innsbruck Prose Corpus: Its concept and usability
in Middle English lexicology.

Michiko OGURA: Words of EMOTION in Old and Middle English.

Janne SKAFFARI: 'Touched by an alien tongue': Studying lexical
borrowings in the earliest Middle English. 

5. The interface between Semantics, Syntax and Pragmatics.

Diana M. LEWIS: Rhetorical factors in lexical-semantic change: The
case of at least.

Silvia MOLINA PLAZA: Modal change: A corpus study from 1500
to 1710 compared to current usage.

Anna POCH HIGUERAS and Isabel VERDAGUER CLAVERA: The rise of new
meanings: A historical journey through English ways of looking at.

Junichi TOYOTA: Lexical analysis of Middle English passive
constructions.

Lingfield(s):

Historical Linguistics, 
Lexicography, 
Semantics,

Subject Language(s):

English (Language code: ENG)
Old English
Middle English    

Language Family(ies):

Written In:

English (Language Code: ENG)

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