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In:Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998
Edited by Julie Coleman and Christian Kay
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 194] 2000
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 15 July 2000
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Table of contents

Introductionvii
Brook Memoir by Alan Shelstonix
List of Contributorsxiii
Lexical Gaps, Cognition and Linguistic Change1
Folk-Etymology: Haphazard Perversion or Shrewd Analogy?19
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Mechanisms of Semantic Change in Nouns of Cognition: a General Model?35
Historical Semantics and Historical Lexicography: will the twain ever meet?53
Strange Linguists: the Cant and Slang Dictionary Tradition69
Lexical Choices in an Early Galilean Translation87
Grund to Hrof: Aspects of the Old English Semantics of Building and Architecture103
Five Hundred Years of Love: a Prototype-Semantic Analysis127
The Vocabulary of Consent in Middle English157
The Discourse Motivations for Neologising: Action Nominalization in the History of English179
The Vernacularization of the Negative Prefix Dis-in Early Modern English209
Brook Symposium Edited by Christian Kay229
Author and Subject Index241
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