يعدُّ هذا البحث دراسة دلالية في الشعر العربي القديم بهدف رصد التغيرات التي طرأت على الألفاظ تناولها الشعراء شعرهم، وقد اتبع المنهج الاستقرائي/ الاستنباطي بيان حركة هذه وأصولها واستعمالاتها، ثمّ استنباط ما طرأ عليها من تغيير دلالي إمّا بتعميم دلالتها لتشمل عددًا أكبر المدلولات والمعاني، وإمّا بتضيق لتقتصر معنى واحد المعاني الكثيرة دُوِّنت أصل وضعها، أن ترتقي لتأخذَ أسمى المعنى الذي وُضِعت له، العكس بأنَّ تنحّط...

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...

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...

The notion of implicature is not precisely defined, and may be compared to a concept with prototypical and peripheral instances. A prototypical implicature is a particularized conversational implicature as first proposed by Grice (1975), in which the implicature is intended by the speaker, dependent on the particular context of utterance, and calculated by identifiable inferential steps, includ...