RT Book, Whole
T1 The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English: A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy
A1 Pettersson Traba, Daniela Beatriz
AB 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.
PB De Gruyter Mouton
SN 978-3-11-079220-1 (Hardcover)
SN 978-3-11-079229-4 (PDF)
SN 978-3-11-079236-2 (EPUB)
SN 1861-4078
YR 2022
FD 2022-10-24
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100637
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100637
LA eng
NO For generous financial support, I am grateful to the European Regional Development Fund and the following institutions: The Regional Government of Galicia (grants ED481A–2016/168, ED431B 2017/12, ED431D 2017/09, and ED431B 2020/01) and the Spanish Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Universities (grants FFI2017–86884-P and PID2020-114604GB-100).
NO Xunta de Galicia
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 19 abr 2025