The study of word meaning became a well-established academicenterprise in the 19th century, with the birth ofhistorical-philological semantics (Section 2.2). Nevertheless, word meaning had been a source of curiosity and debatelong before that.
The study of word meaning became a well-established academicenterprise in the 19th century, with the birth ofhistorical-philological semantics (Section 2.2). Nevertheless, word meaning had been a source of curiosity and debatelong before that.