The Semantic Predecessors of Need in the History of English (c750-1710) |
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Author:
| Loureiro-Porto, Lucía |
Series title: | Publications of the Philological Society Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4051-9270-5 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $43.75 |
Book Description:
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Necessity is a primary meaning expressed diversely in world languages and whose evolution helps describe human cognitive development. By adopting a corpus-based approach, this book studies the five verbs from the history of English diachronically, from the language s origins (c. 750) to the end of the early Modern period (1710).
Necessity is a primary meaning expressed diversely in world languages and whose evolution helps describe human cognitive development. By adopting a corpus-based approach, this book studies the five verbs from the history of English diachronically, from the language s origins (c. 750) to the end of the early Modern period (1710).