The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English: A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy
Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, [2022]
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Monographie, Elektronische Ressource
- 1 online resource (XVIII, 270 p.)
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The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions in meaning between near-synonyms. However, most studies have dealt with the semantic structure of sets of near-synonyms from a synchronic perspective, while their diachronic evolution generally has been neglected. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to examine five adjectival near-synonyms in the history of American English from the understudied semantic domain of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range of contexts, including semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic ones, since distributional patterns of this type serve as a proxy for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is submitted to various univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, making it possible to uncover fine-grained (dis)similarities among the near-synonyms, as well as possible changes in their prototypical structures. The book sheds valuable light on the diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to now been relatively disregarded
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The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English: A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy
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Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Daniela Pettersson-Traba |
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Pettersson-Traba, Daniela |
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Veröffentlichung: | Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, [2022] |
Medientyp: | Monographie |
Datenträgertyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 270 p.) |
ISBN: | 9783110792294 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110792294 |
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