Article: Les Mecanismes linguistiques de l'evolution semantique en francais.(Book review)

Article: Semantic change in word formation (1).
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Jaberg (1905), who claimed that semantic change in affixation is always the result of semantic change in individual words' plus reanalysis ... another, hitherto ignored mechanism of semantic change in word formation where no lexical ...

Article: REVIEW: Semantisk forandring, hur ord far nya betydelser ...
M2 Best Books;  January 27, 2003 ;     640 words ... ... 2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Semantic change is when words get new meanings, or ... introduction to the topic and causes of semantic change. In the second chapter, there is ... fourth chapters deal with the causes of semantic change as well as a specific study. The ...

Encyclopedia entry: SEMANTIC CHANGE
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      597 words ...SEMANTIC CHANGE, also semantic shift . Change in ... scholarly convenience, the processes of semantic change are often described as if each operates ... useful, therefore, to discuss semantic change in terms of webs of shifting forms ...

Article: Regularity in Semantic Change.(Brief article)(Book ...
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2006 ;     484 words ... ... 9780521617918 Regularity in semantic change. Traugott, Elizabeth Closs ... first detailed examination of semantic change from the perspective of historical ... there are general tendencies in semantic change that are widely attested across ...

Dictionary definition: semantic change
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      277 words ...semantic change. Usually of change in the meanings of words. Types include extension or widening of meaning and restriction of meaning , ameliorative and pejorative changes; also figurative changes which involve a metaphor or some other of the traditional figures of speech .

Article: 'N Etimologiese perspektief op betekenisverandering in die ...
Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Abstract An etymological perspective on semantic change in the lexicon of Afrikaans This article ... with the most important processes of semantic change that have occurred in Afrikaans ... also paid to other characteristics of semantic change such as irregularity, unpredictability ...

Article: Semantic changes within the domain boy in panchronic ...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... linguistics studies par excellence--semantic Change--can be understood as conventionalisation ... construction. From this perspective, semantic change appears as a natural consequence of ... principles which condition the mechanism of semantic change in a particular case taking as an ...