The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English
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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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The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English

A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy

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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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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2022
ISBN
9783110792362
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of abbreviations
  5. Semantic categories
  6. USAS Semantic tags (only those referred to in the text)
  7. Other
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Synonymy
  10. 3 The concept pleasant smelling
  11. 4 Semasiological and onomasiological analyses of the synonym set
  12. 5 In-depth onomasiological analysis of the synonym set: A multivariate approach
  13. 6 Idiosyncratic collocational preferences of the near-synonyms
  14. 7 The concept pleasant smelling: A victim of societal change?
  15. 8 Concluding remarks and suggestions for future research
  16. Index