Variation and Change in the Lexicon: A Corpus-based Analysis of Adjectives in English Ending in -ic and -ical
Mark Kaunisto
Jan 2007 · Language and Computers : Studies in Practical Linguistics Book 63 · Rodopi
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The present volume is a corpus-based study of the occurrence, variation, and change in the use of English adjective pairs in -ic and-ical over several centuries. The study involves the analysis of large, multi-million-word corpora representing the English language at various stages. This volume is of interest to language scholars in many fields, including corpus linguistics, diachronic linguistics, semantic change, lexicology, and word formation.
About the author
Mark Kaunisto is an Academy of Finland Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of English, University of Tampere.
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