Meaning change in combination with other variables -- Middle English in context -- Towards the revival of English -- Late Medieval and Early Modern English -- Language change in Medieval and Renaissance England -- Theoretical approaches to linguistic change -- Factors involved in language change -- External factors -- Internal factors -- Language interference through contact -- Interference -- Other contact situations : bilingualism and diglossia -- Changes in different levels of language -- Semantic change : a change social and linguistic -- The meaning of the word meaning -- Related assumptions : the concept of semantic field and broad categorisations of reality -- Changing the meaning -- Definitions -- Causes -- Models to classify changes in meaning -- Corpus material and methodology -- Semantic changes in person-rank nouns -- Meaning change in combination with other variables -- References. References.
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Studies in English medieval language and literature, 1436-7521 ; v. 37
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