The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic

Including a selection of papers originally presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, the contributions to this volume ai

From the contents: Maurizio GOTTI: The origin of 17th century canting terms. - Anne MCDERMOTT: Early dictionaries of English and historical corpora: in search o

While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelat

This volume is a compilation of nine articles, translated from German. They deal with those lexicographic texts or text excerpts which have been formulated in o