
Published online:
01 February 2010
Published in print:
12 November 2009
Online ISBN:
9780191706288
Print ISBN:
9780198700302
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1.1 The birth of lexical semantics 1.1 The birth of lexical semantics
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1.1.1 Speculative etymology 1.1.1 Speculative etymology
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1.1.2 The rhetorical tradition 1.1.2 The rhetorical tradition
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1.1.3 Lexicography 1.1.3 Lexicography
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1.2 The nature of meaning 1.2 The nature of meaning
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1.2.1 Bréal on meaning and mind 1.2.1 Bréal on meaning and mind
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1.2.2 Paul on context and usage 1.2.2 Paul on context and usage
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1.2.3 Variant voices 1.2.3 Variant voices
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1.3 Classifications of semantic change 1.3 Classifications of semantic change
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1.3.1 Main types of change 1.3.1 Main types of change
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1.3.2 Lower‐level patterns 1.3.2 Lower‐level patterns
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Metaphors Based on Similarities of Shape and Appearance Metaphors Based on Similarities of Shape and Appearance
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Metaphors Based on Similarities of Structural Position Metaphors Based on Similarities of Structural Position
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Metaphors Based on Functional Similarities Metaphors Based on Functional Similarities
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Metaphors Relating Space and Time Metaphors Relating Space and Time
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Metaphors Relating Space and Quantity Metaphors Relating Space and Quantity
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Metaphors Relating Sensory Domains Metaphors Relating Sensory Domains
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Metaphors Relating Corporeal and Cognitive Phenomena Metaphors Relating Corporeal and Cognitive Phenomena
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1.3.3 Classificatory complexities 1.3.3 Classificatory complexities
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1.4 Beyond historical‐philological semantics 1.4 Beyond historical‐philological semantics
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Further sources for Chapter 1 Further sources for Chapter 1
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Chapter
1 1 Historical‐philological Semantics
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Published:November 2009
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Geeraerts, Dirk, '1 Historical‐philological Semantics', Theories of Lexical Semantics (Oxford , 2009; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Feb. 2010), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198700302.003.0001, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
The first chapter describes historical‐philological semantics. Historical‐philological semantics is the diachronic approach to lexical semantics that dominated the discipline from 1850 to roughly 1930. Its basic interest lies in change of meaning; the practical results of this type of research chiefly take the form of classifications of mechanisms of semantic change, like metaphor, metonymy, generalization, specialization.
Keywords:
diachronic semantics, change of meaning, generalisation, specialisation, metaphor, metonymy, etymology, Herman Paul, Michel Bréal, Gustaf Stern
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