Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Book part
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I Framework
- Part II Analyses
- Section 3 Perspectives on processes of change
- 12 Phonological change in English
- 13 Change in the English lexicon
- 14 Morphosyntactic change
- 15 Semantic and pragmatic change
- 16 Genre dynamics in the history of English
- 17 Processes of sociolinguistic and sociopragmatic change
- 18 Standardization
- 19 Contact-related processes of change in the early history of English
- 20 Global spread of English: processes of change
- Section 4 Highlighting the research process
- Bibliography
- Subject index
- Name index
15 - Semantic and pragmatic change
from Section 3 - Perspectives on processes of change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2016
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Book part
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I Framework
- Part II Analyses
- Section 3 Perspectives on processes of change
- 12 Phonological change in English
- 13 Change in the English lexicon
- 14 Morphosyntactic change
- 15 Semantic and pragmatic change
- 16 Genre dynamics in the history of English
- 17 Processes of sociolinguistic and sociopragmatic change
- 18 Standardization
- 19 Contact-related processes of change in the early history of English
- 20 Global spread of English: processes of change
- Section 4 Highlighting the research process
- Bibliography
- Subject index
- Name index
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- The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics , pp. 256 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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