Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics
| Author | : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781849506779 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1849506779 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics by : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
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 2009 with total page 313 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.
