| Lemma | semantic change |
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| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bloomfield (1935) |
| Titolo | Language |
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| Citazioni | Innovations which change the lexical meaning rather than the grammatical function of a form are classed as 'change of meaning' or 'semantic change'. The first student to see that semantic change consists of expansion and obsolescence, was Hermann Paul. A semantic change, then, is a complex process. It involves favorings and disfavorings, and, as its crucial point, the extension of a favored form into practical applications which hitherto belonged to the disfavored form. |