Analyzing the behavioral profiles of sets of near-synonyms in American English from a diachronic perspective

It is a rather generalized assumption that synonymy is relatively straightforward and unproblematic, being the semantic relation which is familiar to most people, including nonlinguists. However, despite being a common linguistic phenomenon, synonymy is also a particularly complex one (Cruse, 2000;...

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Autor: Pettersson-Traba, Daniela
Formato: capítulo de livro
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/16703
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16703
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Resumo:It is a rather generalized assumption that synonymy is relatively straightforward and unproblematic, being the semantic relation which is familiar to most people, including nonlinguists. However, despite being a common linguistic phenomenon, synonymy is also a particularly complex one (Cruse, 2000; Liu, 2010).