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The Old English Complex Plant Names: A Linguistic Survey and a Catalogue - Gneuss, Helmut, and Krischke, Ulrike
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This investigation is a qualitative analysis of the etymological, the morphological and the semantic history of the Old English complex plant names as a lexical field, and an in-depth study of the plant names as individual entities. Their particular interest results from the fact that they encode a wealth of information on the plants and their perception by the people, as well as on the psychological processes and the linguistic strategies that were used in the naming processes. Their analysis requires the interplay of ...

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The Old English Complex Plant Names: A Linguistic Survey and a Catalogue 2013, Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt a.M.

ISBN-13: 9783631642696

Hardcover