Regularity in Semantic Change
This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions. Drawing on extensive research from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.
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This important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use.
List of figuresPreface and acknowledgmentsConventionsList of abbreviations1The framework12Prior and current work on semantic change513The development of modal verbs1054The development of adverbials with discourse marker function1525The development of performative verbs and constructions1906The development of social deictics2267Conclusion279Primary references286Secondary references295Index of languages328Index of names330General index335
