Download or read book A Changing World of Words written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Maurizio GOTTI: The origin of 17th century canting terms. - Anne MCDERMOTT: Early dictionaries of English and historical corpora: in search of hard words. - Paivi KOIVISTO-ALANKO: Prototypes in semantic change: a diachronic perspective on abstract nouns. - Manuela ROMANO POZO: A morphodynamic interpretation of synonymy and polysemy in Old English."