A corpus-based study on near-synonymy: The concept PLEASANT SMELLING in 19th- and 20th-century American English
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Título: | A corpus-based study on near-synonymy: The concept PLEASANT SMELLING in 19th- and 20th-century American English |
Autor/a: | Pettersson Traba, Daniela |
Dirección/Titoría: | López Couso, María José |
Centro/Departamento: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Escola de Doutoramento Internacional (EDIUS) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Programa de Doutoramento en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados: Lingüística, Literatura e Cultura |
Palabras chave: | Near-synonymy | Historical linguistics | Semantic change | Distributional corpus-based approach | Collocation | Pleasant smelling | American English | |
Data: | 2021 |
Resumo: | This dissertation examines the distributional patterns of the five adjectival near-synonyms fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling, which designate the concept PLEASANT SMELLING in American English by paying special attention to their diachronic development, as represented in the Corpus of Historical American English (1810-2009). The distribution of the selected adjectives is analyzed across a wide range of semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic contexts which function as a proxy for semantic similarity. Three separate analyses are conducted, focusing on different aspects of the semantic structure of the near-synonyms. Results indicate that the set is undergoing processes of convergence and substitution, possibly as a result of extralinguistic factors. Therefore, the analyses shed light on the diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to now been relatively disregarded in the specialized literature. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26054 |
Dereitos: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional |
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