An Insight into the historical semantics of names of music instruments

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Ng, Chiar Jiun
• مؤلفون آخرون: Francesco Perono Cacciafoco
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Historical linguistics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73478
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines the semantic changes of names of musical instruments, mainly the violin, guitar, flute and the aulos, by looking into the etymology and history of their development. Historical semantics is the crux of this paper as it looks into words through a diachronic study whereby it consid...