The power of words :: essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics : in honour of Christian J. Kay /

This volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and specific subjects include medical vocabulary, colour lexemes, and semantic and pragmatic meaning in term...

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Other Authors: Kay, Christian, Caie, Graham D., Hough, Carole, Wotherspoon, Irené
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:Costerus ; new ser., v. 163.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and specific subjects include medical vocabulary, colour lexemes, and semantic and pragmatic meaning in terms for politeness, money and humour. In the area of Old English studies there are articles on kinship terminology and colour lexemes, and in Middle English a semantic and syntactic study of the overlapping of the verbs dreden and douten . Many of the essays make use of the Historical Thesaurus of Eng.
Item Description:Festschrift.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : portrait
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781429480932
1429480939
9789401203722
9401203725
ISSN:0165-9618 ;

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