Usage-Based Approaches to Semantic Change
- Autores: Dylan Jarrett, Patricia Amaral
- Localización: The Handbook of Usage Based Linguistics / coord. por Manuel Díaz Campos, Sonia Balasch, 2023, ISBN 9781119839859, págs. 435-453
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This chapter presents an overview of selected contributions to historical linguistics that adopt a usage-based perspective. Using examples from English and the Romance languages, it focuses on three areas of study in which usage-based accounts have made important contributions: the creation of sentence connectives; the development of discourse markers; and the diachrony of negation. It starts with a theory of semantic change stemming from usage-based and typological studies, which has revealed patterns and tendencies in the domain of meaning change. Then the diachronic development of sentence connectives is examined, considering studies which analyze instances of regular semantic change and, therefore, contribute diachronic data for typological semantic maps. The chapter then turns to the discussion of the role of (inter)subjectification in semantic change, considering studies which examine the development of intensifiers, discourse markers, quotatives, and concessive connectives. Finally, studies on the diachrony of negation in Romance are presented.References
