There are two basic approaches to the study of word-formation: onomasiological and
semasiological. 1 The semasiological (from Greek séma 'sign') method, proceeding from …

Recent issues in diachronic lexical semantics have shed new light on an old-fashioned
linguistic discipline, ie onomasiology. This is less surprising when one is aware of the fact …

Die Arbeit analysiert aktuelle Entlehnungen und Lehnwortintegrationen im Französischen
und in anderen romanischen Sprachen. In Abgrenzung zu traditionellen Ansätzen, die …

Since recent findings of cognitive linguistics have already initiated new discussions on
semantic change and word-formation, this study now wants to shed new light on the third …

The following contribution calls attention to the fact that cognitive linguistics has already had
its effects on historical semasiology, but hardly on historical onomasiology. Although certain …

In historical linguistics, cognates are words that descend in direct line from a common
ancestor, called their proto-form, and therefore are representative of their respective …

This article is a contribution to the long standing issue of identifying directionality in semantic
change. Drawing on evidence from a sample of morphologically complex terms in basic …

This book presents the onomasiological approach to word formation and applies it to
neoclassical formations, using data taken from English and Russian medical terminology …

Within recent years, quantitative cross-linguistic research has shown that body parts are one
of the least borrowed semantic fields (Tadmor and Haspelmath,;;). With body parts showing …

Eugene Casad's posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE
metaphor in Cora–an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit, Mexico–within …