historical development

This article examines the role of the thematic context in the study of the historical development of the semantics of lexical units. The subject of analysis is the functioning of the lexemes of the moral and ethical sphere in medieval English religious discourse.

This article considers the role of discourse analysis and corpus analysis in the investigation of historical development of the semantic structure of lexical units.

This article considers the historical aspect of the interaction between lexical semantics and discourse. A special emphasis is put on the role of discourse determined synonymic rows in the evolution of the meaning of lexical units. The material of the research is represented by English, French and Spanish medieval written records.