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Article: Some aspects of modern diachronic onomasiology *.
- Article from:
- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Abstract
The following contribution calls attention to the fact that cognitive linguistics has already had its effects on historical semasiology, but hardly on historical onomasiology. Although certain "modern" linguistic concepts can be detected in the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it is the merit of cognitive linguistics to put them into a certain systemization. The article dwells on some aspects where further research is needed and attempts to give a few incentives. A new internet journal is presented as a necessary organ for cross-linguistic studies in the realm of onomasiology. The article then offers revisions of traditional ...