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Diachronic semantics and lexicology

Description

Study of semantic change in the Catalan lexicon, how the different meanings are structured, how they arise and change. It is also interested in semantic change in constructions, such as verbal periphrases or phraseological units. Application of linguistic theories (cognitivism, constructionism...).

Keywords

semantics, lexicology, phraseology, semantic change, subjectivisation, intersubjectivisation, modality, evidentiality