English historical linguistics 2006. Volume 2, Lexical and semantic change : selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Syntax and morphology / edited by Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena, Richard Dury -- v. 2. Lexical and semantic change / edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena -- v. 3. Geo-Historical variation in english / edited Marina Dossena, Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti.

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics and register variation. A rich variety of state-of-the-art studies and plenary lectures by acknowledged world experts in the field bears witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approac.

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