Current Methods in Historical Semantics

Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes. The volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of empirical research techniques and theoretical perspectives that currently inform work across the discipline of historical semantics. In addition to emphasising the use of new technology, the potential of current theoretical models (e.g. within variationist, sociolinguistic or cognitive frameworks) is explored along the way.

About the author

Kathryn Allan, University College London, UK; Justyna A. Robinson, University of Sussex, UK.

Product details

• Assisted by: A Robinson (Editor), A Robinson (Editor), Kathry Allan (Editor), Kathryn Allan (Editor), Justyna A. Robinson (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9783110252880
• ISBN: 978-3-11-025288-0
• No. of pages: 347
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 42 mm x 242 mm
• Weight: 644 g
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics; Mouton de Gruyter; Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; De Gruyter Mouton; Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; Topics in English Linguistics; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics