English Historical Semantics by Christian Kay PAPERBACK 9780748644773

Edinburgh University Press

English Historical Semantics\nby Christian Kay\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christian Kay\nTitle: English Historical Semantics\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Historical and comparative linguistics\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9780748644773\nISBN-10: 0748644776\nRRP: \u00A324.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis book offers an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change.\n\nThis book.