Elizabeth Closs Traugott (California Stanford University), Richard B. Dasher (California Stanford University)

Regularity in Semantic Change

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Produktbeschreibung

This important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780521617918
• ISBN-10: 052161791X
• Artikelnr.: 20964586

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Closs Traugott is Professor of Linguistics and English at Stanford University. Her previous books include A History of English Syntax (1972), Linguistics for Students of Literature (with Mary L. Pratt, 1980) and Grammaticalization (with Paul J. Hopper, Cambridge, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Preface and acknowledgements
Conventions
List of abbreviations
1. The framework
2. Prior and current work on semantic change
3. The development of modal verbs
4. The development of adverbials with discourse marker function
5. The development of performative verbs and constructions
6. The development of social deictics
7. Conclusion
Primary references
Secondary references
Index of languages
Index of names
Index of subjects.