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Webs of Words: New Studies in Historical Lexicology brings together ten papers on aspects of the history of words and vocabulary, which address aspects of Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English (including Caribbean varieties), German, Italian, Maori, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and other languages. In the first four essays, focussing on pre-1800 material, Karel Kucera and Martin Stluka's opening essay discusses the plotting of the relative historical frequency of common words, drawing on their wor...

Historical lexicology. --- Historical linguistics --- Lexicology

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Semantics, Historical --- Cognition. --- Psychological aspects. --- Sémantique historique --- -Historical lexicology --- -Psychological aspects --- -Psychology --- Historical lexicology --- Sémantique historique --- REFERENCE --- Cognition --- Semantics, Historical. --- Psychology --- Historical semantics --- Psychological aspects --- General --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- Historical linguistics --- Philology.

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The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Semantics. --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Lexical grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Semantics, Historical --- Psychological aspects. --- Historical semantics --- Historical lexicology --- Cross-Linguistic Comparison. --- Lexicography. --- Typology.

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This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English. Based on data from annotated corpora it provides an in depth investigation from Old English to Modern English and shows that structurally the three suffixes developed from syntactic heads (nouns) via morphological heads in compounds to morphological heads in derivations. Being an instance of morphologisation the rise of suffixes clearly shows that word formation is not part of the syntactic module. This development is triggered by semantic change, more precisely, by the semantics of the elements which keep their salient meanings and develop further meanings through metonymic shifts, finally leading to underspecified meanings. The findings are analysed in a revised version of Lieber's (2004) framework to account for the diachronic facts and have far-reaching consequences for morphological theory since they show that derivational suffixes bear meaning and hence contribute to processes of lexicalisation which is clear evidence for sign-based models and against, for example, Separationist assumptions.

English language --- Historical lexicology. --- Historical linguistics --- Lexicology --- Germanic languages --- Word formation --- History. --- Suffixes and prefixes. --- Semantics, Historical. --- Prefixes --- English/Language. --- History of Language. --- Lexical Semantics. --- Morphology.

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The focus of this volume is on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. The papers gathered here offer both theoretical proposals of more general scope and in-depth studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. The analyses include data from English, several Romance languages, German, Scandinavian languages, and Oceanic languages. Detailed case-studies covering central semantic domains, such as concession, evidentiality, intensification, modality, negation, scalarity, subjectivity, and temporality, allow the authors to test and refine current models of semantic change, by focusing, for instance, on the respective roles of speakers and hearers in the process and on the relationship between semantic and syntactic reanalysis. Key theoretical notions, such as presuppositions, paradigms, word order, and discourse status are revisited in a diachronic perspective to provide innovative accounts of causes and motivations for linguistic changes. A prominent theme is the evolution of procedural meanings of various kinds. Thus, several papers feature different types of pragmatic markers as their object of study, while others are concerned with items and constructions expressing modality, evidentiality, negation, and relational meanings.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Linguistic change. --- Semantics, Historical. --- Pragmatics. --- Historical semantics --- Historical lexicology --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Sémantique --- Pragmatique