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Article: Churls, Harlots and Sires: the semantics of Middle English synonyms of man.(Linguistics)
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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ABSTRACT
While early students of linguistics such as, Bechstein (1863), Paul (1880), Breal (1879), Trench (1892) devoted much effort to the issue of diachronic semantic change, the second half of the 20th century was, until the 1980s, marked by a particular dearth of publications on the problems of diachronic semantics. This overall picture started to change with the advent of cognitive linguistics as new ideas caught on and were put to the test by those who thought that cognitive linguistics offered the means by which historical semantic changes could be studied more successfully.
This preliminary analysis is concerned with meaning and change of ...