Semantic innovations in English: motivations for changes

Causes of word meaning changes in the English. Traditional typologies for motivating semantic changes made by world-known scholars. Semantic shifts that combines a framework taken from pragmatics with the cognitive regularities of linguistic innovations.

Рубрика Иностранные языки и языкознание
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Язык английский
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