Folk-Taxonomies in Early English

By Earl R. Anderson

This book studies the folk-taxonomy for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo- European language families. The semantic fields studied are basic color terms, seasons of the year, geometric shapes, the five senses, the folk-psychology of mind and soul, and basic plant and animal life-forms. AndersonOs emphasis is on folk-taxonomies in Old and Middle English, and also on the implications of semantic analysis for our reading of early English literary texts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611472229
• ISBN13: 9781611472226
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 587 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"