Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie

Bedeutungswandel im deutschen Wortschatz

Abstract

The research project „Semantic Field Etymology in German and in European Context – Man in Nature and Culture“ (DWEE), funded by the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig and affiliated with the Department of Indo-Germanic Studies at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, aims to make semantic change within the German lexicon accessible to systematic investigation within a broader European framework. Drawing on a curated, interactively accessible corpus and regular publication of research results, the project reveals synchronic and diachronic patterns of lexical and semantic change within the German lexicon by tracing the evolution of semantic fields from present-day German back to Old High German.