Semantic change

On the Problem of Lexical Semantic Change

The article provides an insight into a problem of lexical semantic change. A short historical outline of the development of semantic studies is given. The authors analyze some of the most important stages in the history of the formation of this field. The existing approaches to dealing with form and meaning, namely semasiological and onomasiological ones are discussed. The authors consider the ...

semantic change in the quranic words

this research titeled (semantic change in the quranic words: praise prophet reverence) this study is about how to transform from the meaning to another. in this article we looked lexical and semantic meaning of three words of quran in pre-islamic era until the end of sending quran. we studied the influence of islam in changing word semantically. islam does not bring new words but added them new...

Semantic Change in Grammaticalization

In this paper, I want to establish semantic reanalysis as an independent mode of meaning change in language history. My point of departure will be cases of language change that have traditionally been classed as „grammaticalization“, on one hand because we will find very nice instances of semantic reanalysis particuarly in that field, and on the other hand because I think that the notion of sem...

Chapter 35 . Semantic change

35.1 Preliminaries This chapter discusses how linguistic expressions may change their meaning over time. Actually the scope is a bit more limited than that, in the sense that here we will only see examples of how words  e.g. silly, very  change their meaning. The term 'linguistic expressions' includes words, but also larger grammatical constructions. Grammatical constructions  e.g. what in p...

Semantic Belief Change