Semantic Change
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Author |
: Nina Tahmasebi |
Publisher |
: Language Science Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2021-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783961103126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3961103127 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Computational approaches to semantic change by : Nina Tahmasebi
Semantic change — how the meanings of words change over time — has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the study of language change. Compared to changes in sound and grammar, semantic change is the least understood. Ever since, the study of semantic change has progressed steadily, accumulating a vast store of knowledge for over a century, encompassing many languages and language families. Historical linguists also early on realized the potential of computers as research tools, with papers at the very first international conferences in computational linguistics in the 1960s. Such computational studies still tended to be small-scale, method-oriented, and qualitative. However, recent years have witnessed a sea-change in this regard. Big-data empirical quantitative investigations are now coming to the forefront, enabled by enormous advances in storage capability and processing power. Diachronic corpora have grown beyond imagination, defying exploration by traditional manual qualitative methods, and language technology has become increasingly data-driven and semantics-oriented. These developments present a golden opportunity for the empirical study of semantic change over both long and short time spans. A major challenge presently is to integrate the hard-earned knowledge and expertise of traditional historical linguistics with cutting-edge methodology explored primarily in computational linguistics. The idea for the present volume came out of a concrete response to this challenge. The 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange'19), at ACL 2019, brought together scholars from both fields. This volume offers a survey of this exciting new direction in the study of semantic change, a discussion of the many remaining challenges that we face in pursuing it, and considerably updated and extended versions of a selection of the contributions to the LChange'19 workshop, addressing both more theoretical problems — e.g., discovery of "laws of semantic change" — and practical applications, such as information retrieval in longitudinal text archives.
Author |
: Elizabeth Closs Traugott |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2005-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 052161791X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521617918 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Regularity in Semantic Change by : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions. Drawing on extensive research from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.
Author |
: Nick Riemer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 477 |
Release |
: 2010-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521851923 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521851920 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introducing Semantics by : Nick Riemer
An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Author |
: Sol Steinmetz |
Publisher |
: Random House Reference |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2009-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307497789 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030749778X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Semantic Antics by : Sol Steinmetz
"My favorite popular word book of the year" -William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008 A fun, new approach to examining etymology! Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example: The word adamant came into English around 855 C.E. as a synonym for 'diamond,' very different from today's meaning of the word: "utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion." Before the year 1200, the word silly meant "blessed," and was derived from Old English saelig, meaning "happy." This word went through several incarnations before adopting today's meaning: "stupid or foolish." In Semantic Antics, lexicographer Sol Steinmetz takes readers on an in-depth, fascinating journey to learn how hundreds of words have evolved from their first meaning to the meanings used today.
Author |
: Martine Vanhove |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027205735 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027205736 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Polysemy to Semantic Change by : Martine Vanhove
This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of polysemy, heterosemy, or semantic change at the lexical level. The first part presents a comprehensive state of the art of a domain typologists have long been reluctant to deal with. Part two focuses on theoretical and methodological approaches: cognition, construction grammar, graph theory, semantic maps, and data bases. These studies deal with universals and variation across languages, illustrated with numerous examples from different semantic domains and different languages. Part three is dedicated to detailed empirical studies of a large sample of languages in a limited set of semantic fields. It reveals possible universals of semantic association, as well as areal and cultural tendencies.
Author |
: Elizabeth Closs Traugott |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2001-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139431156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139431153 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regularity in Semantic Change by : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
This important study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees. There has been growing interest in exploring systemicities in semantic change from a number of perspectives including theories of metaphor, pragmatic inferencing, and grammaticalization. Like earlier studies, these have for the most part been based on data taken out of context. This book is a detailed examination of semantic change from the perspective of historical pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on extensive corpus data from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.
Author |
: Päivi Juvonen |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 565 |
Release |
: 2016-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110393064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110393069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts by : Päivi Juvonen
The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.
Author |
: Thomas Heim |
Publisher |
: GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 27 |
Release |
: 2006-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783638453899 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3638453898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Semantic Change by : Thomas Heim
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, LMU Munich (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: Hauptseminar, language: English, abstract: “Semantic change deals with change in meaning, understood to be a change in the concepts associated with a word [...]” (Campbell 1998: 255). To some of you, Campbell’s definition may seem a bit simplistic. Some scholars, too (for example Blank whom we’ll be hearing of later on), argue that it’s not one meaning of word that changes, but with semantic change a new meaning is added to the already existing meaning or meanings of a word and then this new meaning is lexicalised, or one of the already lexicalised meanings is no longer used and becomes extinct. I think Campbell’s definition can suffice as a basis for our little “immersion” into semantic change. And what is more important than a theoretically watertight definition is a “practical insight” into semantic change. So let’s have quick look on what exactly changes when words change their meanings.
Author |
: Heiko Narrog |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2012-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199694372 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199694370 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change by : Heiko Narrog
This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers. With a focus on Japanese and to a lesser extent Chinese the book is a countercheck to hypotheses built on the Indo-European languages. It also contains numerous illustrations from other languages.
Author |
: Martine Vanhove |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 2008-11-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027290328 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027290326 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Polysemy to Semantic Change by : Martine Vanhove
This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of polysemy, heterosemy, or semantic change at the lexical level. The first part presents a comprehensive state of the art of a domain typologists have long been reluctant to deal with. Part two focuses on theoretical and methodological approaches: cognition, construction grammar, graph theory, semantic maps, and data bases. These studies deal with universals and variation across languages, illustrated with numerous examples from different semantic domains and different languages. Part three is dedicated to detailed empirical studies of a large sample of languages in a limited set of semantic fields. It reveals possible universals of semantic association, as well as areal and cultural tendencies.