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Media type:
Book
Title:
Change in life, change in language
:
a semantic approach to the history of English
Contains:
Socio-historical background of the English language (12th-17th centuries)Middle English in contextTowards the revival of EnglishLate Medieval and Early Modern EnglishLanguage change in Medieval and Renaissance EnglandTheoretical approaches to linguistic changeFactors involved in language changeExternal factorsInternal factorsLanguage interference through contactInterferenceOther contact situations : bilingualism and diglossiaChanges in different levels of languageSemantic change : a change 'social and linguistic'The meaning of the word meaningRelated assumptions : the concept of 'semantic field' and broad categorisations of realityChanging the meaningDefinitionsCausesModels to classify changes in meaningCorpus material and methodologySemantic changes in person-rank nounsMeaning change in combination with other variablesFinal remarksReferences.