Diachronic Semantics

Editor
ORCID logoDirk Geeraerts | Free University of Brussels
Paperback – Available
ISBN 9789027226655 (Eur) | EUR 68.00
ISBN 9781588111364 (USA) | USD 102.00
 
e-Journal – Available
| EUR 58.00
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 5] 1990.  167 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 October 2013
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.5
Table of Contents
Introduction
Dirk Geeraerts
7–8
Metaphorical Divergences in the Evolution of Dutch and Afrikaans
René Dirven †
9–34
The Prepositions WITH, MID and AGAIN(ST) in Old and Middle English: A case-study of historical lexical semantics
Xavier Dekeyser
35–48
Homonymy, Iconicity, and Prototypicality
Dirk Geeraerts
49–74
Transfer and Prototypicality in Animal and Plant Names
Bruno Callebaut
75–86
Pronominal Verbs in Old and Modern French, or How prototypes can be restructured on the basis of permanent meaning effects
Ludo Melis
87–108
Translation as a Witness to Semantic Change
Willy van Hoecke and Michèle Goyens
109–131
The Role of Semantics in the Development of Historical Linguistics in France
Piet Desmet
133–158
Abstracts - Resumes - Samenvattingen
159–165
Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics
Semantics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General