Publisher's Synopsis
Recent developments of linguistics have given innovative impulses to historical semantics. For the Romance study of words, the time has come to establish a dialogue between theorists and historians of language. As far as structural semantics are integrated into cognitive concepts of historical semantics, it remains attractive for the lexical analysis of older language levels and relevant for the linguistics of semantic change/change in meaning. Cognitive models are undergoing new accentuations towards a pragmatic historical semantics, which are open to/receptive to language-historical questions in particular.
