Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics
Author | : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-11-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004253216 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004253211 |
Rating | : 4/5 (211 Downloads) |
Download or read book Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics written by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. This work gathers the papers that offer studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. It includes case-studies covering central semantic domains such as concession, evidentiality, modality, negation, scalarity, subjectivity, and temporality.