Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes. The volume s

Semantic change — how the meanings of words change over time — has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and ea

This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change.

Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical lin