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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.

English Historical Semantics

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    A Paperback / softback by Christian Kay, Kathryn Allan

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 31/10/2015
      ISBN13: 9780748644773, 978-0748644773
      ISBN10: 0748644776
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

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