Download or read book Variation and Change in the Lexicon written by Mark Kaunisto and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a corpus-based study of the occurrence, variation, and change in the use of English adjective pairs in -ic and-ical over several centuries. The study involves the analysis of large, multi-million-word corpora representing the English language at various stages. This volume is of interest to language scholars in many fields, including corpus linguistics, diachronic linguistics, semantic change, lexicology, and word formation.