Change in life, change in language
Subtitle: a semantic approach to the history of English
By: Begoña Crespo
Series: Studies in English medieval language and literature -- v. 37
Publisher: Peter Lang Edition
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9783631634530
Subjects: English language; Historical Semantics; Semantics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-145).
Table of contents: title: Socio-historical background of the English language (12th-17th centuries) --; title: Middle English in context --; title: Towards the revival of English --; title: Late Medieval and Early Modern English --; title: Language change in Medieval and Renaissance England --; title: Theoretical approaches to linguistic change --; title: Factors involved in language change --; title: External factors --; title: Internal factors --; title: Language interference through contact --; title: Interference --; title: Other contact situations : bilingualism and diglossia --; title: Changes in different levels of language --; title: Semantic change : a change 'social and linguistic' --; title: The meaning of the word meaning --; title: Related assumptions : the concept of 'semantic field' and broad categorisations of reality --; title: Changing the meaning --; title: Definitions --; title: Causes --; title: Models to classify changes in meaning --; title: Corpus material and methodology --; title: Semantic changes in person-rank nouns --; title: Meaning change in combination with other variables ---- Final remarks-- References.