The power of words : essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics : in honour of Christian J. Kay / edited by Graham D. Caie, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon.

Festschrift.

Old English colour lexemes used of textiles in Anglo-Saxon England / C.P. Biggam -- Slang terms for money: a historical thesaurus / Julie Coleman -- 'Huv a wee seat, hen': evaluative terms in Scots / Fiona Douglas, John Corbett -- Lexical splits and mergers: some difficult cases for the OED / Philip Durkin -- Of fæderan and eamas: avuncularity in Old English / Andreas Fischer -- $ho:fian{*}/vK2: a LAEME-based lexical study / Roger Lass, Margaret Laing -- The rhyme potential of Scots / Caroline Macafee -- Of politeness and people / Terttu Nevalainen, Heli Tissari -- ME douten and dreden / Michiko Ogura -- What did Anglo-Saxon seals seal when? / Jane Roberts -- Notes on the medical vocabulary of John Keats / Jeremy J. Smith -- 'Tell her to shut her moof': the role of the lexicon in TH-fronting in Glaswegian / Jane Stuart-Smith, Claire Timmins -- Forces of change: are social and moral attitudes legible in this Historical Thesaurus classification? / Louise Sylvester -- Key word in context: semantic and pragmatic meaning of humour / Irma Taavitainen -- Lexicographical Lyrics / James McGonigal.

Includes bibliographical references.

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This volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and specific subjects include medical vocabulary, colour lexemes, and semantic and pragmatic meaning in terms for politeness, money and humour. In the area of Old English studies there are articles on kinship terminology and colour lexemes, and in Middle English a semantic and syntactic study of the overlapping of the verbs dreden and douten . Many of the essays make use of the Historical Thesaurus of Eng.

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