Lexicosemantic diffusion in World Englishes: variable meaning–form relations in prospective verbs

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-550114
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.55011

SCHNEIDER, EDGAR W.

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Abstract

This article suggests that in the investigation of World Englishes, which has tended to focus on syntactic, phonological and lexical preferences, the analysis of shifts in word meanings (and meaning–form relations in lexical items) needs to be incorporated. Exemplary small-scale studies show that in polysemic words certain varieties come to prefer specific meanings, and in word fields some ...