Regularity in Semantic Change by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Richard B. Dasher

Regularity in Semantic Change

Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Richard B. Dasher

341 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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This new and 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 uses of words and constructions. Drawing on extensive res...

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