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
K1 Near-synonymy
K1 American English
K1 Smell
K1 Diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms
K1 Semantic analysis
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
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32535
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32535
LA eng
NO Pettersson-Traba, Daniela. The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English: A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792294
NO This monograph constitutes a revised version of my doctoral thesis, submittedand defended at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in March, 2021.I am greatly indebted to my supervisor, Professor María José López Couso, forher invaluable advice and guidance throughout the planning and development ofthis work.
NO 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).
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026