English Historical Semantics

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.

• | By (Author): Christian Kay
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 31, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0748644776
• | ISBN-13: 9780748644773