Article: Regularity in Semantic Change.(Brief article)(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 ...

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: Variation and change in the lexicon; a corpus-based analysis of ...
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2007 ;     551 words ... ... dictionaries and language use manuals for such studies. For scholars in corpus linguistics, diachronic linguistics, semantic change, lexicology, and word formation. No subject index. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

Article: Language and society. (reprint 2007).(Brief article)(Book review)
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2009 ;     477 words ... ... the 1970s. Among the topics are language and social man (1974), sociological aspects of semantic change (1975), language and the theory of codes (1994), and anti-languages (1976). ([c]2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

Transcript: Interview: Bonnie Anderson discusses her new book ...
Tavis Smiley (NPR);  July 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Interview: Bonnie Anderson discusses her new book "News Flash" Host: TAVIS SMILEY Time: 9 ... replaced by the bottom line. In her new book "News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and ... the head of personnel at CNN. In this book "News Flash," you refer to C