This paper introduces a new, concept-based method for measuring variation in the use and
success of loanwords by presenting the results of a case-study on 149 English person …

This article introduces a quantitative method for identifying newly emerging word forms in
large time-stamped corpora of natural language and then describes an analysis of lexical …

Language is always in flux. Over time new patterns can be observed that are either minor
modifications to the linguistic system, as when the meaning of a lexical item changes, or …

In this article we tackle the issue of diachronic variation in constructional semantics through
an exploration of the (recent) semantic history of the well-established English ditransitive or …

The meaning and use of causal discourse connectives has often been characterized in
terms of subjectivity, speech act type or domains of use: English since is considered …

To many people meaning change is an amusing game. Only the most unimaginative would
fail to be interested in the apparent arbitrariness of a change such as Latin musculus' …

Abstract Mittwoch et al.(2002: 779) list by the way, incidentally, and parenthetically as clause
adjuncts that in contemporary English “signal the informational status of their clause” and …

Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change Page 1 Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Natalya I.
Stolova JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change …

This book is a contribution to the growing field of historical cognitive linguistics, in particular
historical constructionalist pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a perspective on the study of …