Inferential features in historical semantics

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. List of participants XI
4. The ordering of nominal compounds in Irish 1
5. The semantic development of will 11
6. Semantic shifts in Korean honorification 23
7. Prefixal negation of English adjectives: psycholinguistic dimensions of productivity 33
8. Cross-linguistic comparison and the development of grammatical meaning Suppletion in word-formation 59
9. Derivation, inflection, and semantic change in the development of the Chukchi verb paradigm 85
10. Etymology and the lexical semantics of the Old English preverb be- 113
11. Cognitive restrictions on the structure of semantic change 127
12. On the origin of the suffix -ly 155
13. Gender systems and semanticity: two case histories from Bantu 171
14. Segmental phonology and word-formation: agency and abstraction in the history of Irish 199
15. Deverbal nouns in Old and Modern English: from stem-formation to word-formation 221
16. Where do concessives come from? On the development of concessive connectives 263
17. The influence of semantic fields on semantic change 283
18. On semantic change in a dynamic model of language 297
19. Contact-induced semantic change and innovation 325
20. Inferential features in historical semantics 339
21. Diachronic irreversibility in word-formation and semantics 355
22. Semantic development of borrowings 367
23. Etymology and semantics. Theoretical considerations apropos of an analysis of the etymological problem of Spanish MAÑERO, MAÑERIA 377
24. Lexical and syntactic semantics in historical aspect 397
25. The synchrony-diachrony division in wordformation 407
26. A historical perspective on the productivity of the suffixes -ness and -ity 435
27. Word-formation, learnèd vocabulary and linguistic maturation 463
28. Laʒamon's compound nouns and their morphology 483
29. On the functional development of repetition in Antiguan Creole morphology, syntax, and discourse 533
30. Modality and semantic change 547
31. The lexicological analysis of older stages of languages 573
32. 'Left' or 'right'? 583
33. Index of authors 597
34. Index of languages 605