Using OED data as evidence for researching semantic change

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction: Exploring the ‘‘state of the art’’ in historical semantics 1
5. Section 1: Data and sources
6. Using OED data as evidence for researching semantic change 17
7. Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED 41
8. The NeoCrawler: identifying and retrieving neologisms from the internet and monitoring ongoing change 59
9. Commentary: Data and Sources 97
10. Section 2: Corpus-based methods
11. How anger rose: Hypothesis testing in diachronic semantics 109
12. Diachronic collostructional analysis: How to use it and how to deal with confounding factors 133
13. Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis 161
14. Commentary: Corpus-based methods 184
15. Section 3: Theoretical Approaches
16. A sociolinguistic approach to semantic change 199
17. A pragmatic approach to historical semantics, with special reference to markers of clausal negation in Medieval French 233
18. The pervasiveness of contiguity and metonymy in semantic change 259
19. A cognitive approach to the methodology of semantic reconstruction: The case of Eng. chin and knee 313
20. Commentary: Theoretical Approaches 334
21. Subject index 343
22. Index of word forms and concepts 346