Regularity in Semantic Change Paperback: 97 (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 97) - Softcover

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052161791X ISBN 13: 9780521617918

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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).

Richard B. Dasher is Director of the US-Japan Technology Center, Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems and Consulting Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Stanford University. His previous publications include historical work on Japanese honorifics in Papers in Linguistics, other research in Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), and various scholarly journals.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052161791X
• ISBN 13: 9780521617918
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364
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