Word-meaning is liable to change in the course of the historical development of language. Changes of lexical meaning may be illustrated by a diachronic semantic analysis of many commonly used English words. The word fond (OE. fond) used to mean ‘foolish’, ‘foolishly credulous’; glad (OE, glaed) had the meaning of ‘bright’, ’shining’ and so on
The article is devoted to the analysis of nominative processes and lexical changes occurring at the ...
In a recent conversation with a British friend, he and I reflected on evolution of various English w...
While it has long been understood that the human mind evolved to learn language, recent studies have...
This study describes meaning changes that have occurred in the native word stock of English. Since ...
This study is concerned with semantic change in English along two dimensions: time and place. The ...
The article is devoted to the problems of interdependence of concepts and lexical meanings. Here are...
This study examines two types of semantic change, namely amelioration and pejoration, through compar...
This article reveals theoretical aspects of semantic changes in the English language, investigates i...
The aim of my work is to show the mechanisms of semantic change and the way they affected some of t...
The development of a language is stimulated by linguistic, historical and social causes and it resul...
It seems fairly obvious that if we accept the claim that semantic change is a cognitively motivated ...
Allo (2013) examined the retention of adjectives between Old and Modern English to determine that th...
Having become a Lingua Franca, English is undergoing constant changes in its phonetic, lexical and g...
This article has been accepted for publication by Edinburgh University Press: https://www.euppublish...
Before the printing press was invented, there was no recognized Standard English. There was no need ...
The article is devoted to the analysis of nominative processes and lexical changes occurring at the ...
In a recent conversation with a British friend, he and I reflected on evolution of various English w...
While it has long been understood that the human mind evolved to learn language, recent studies have...
This study describes meaning changes that have occurred in the native word stock of English. Since ...
This study is concerned with semantic change in English along two dimensions: time and place. The ...
The article is devoted to the problems of interdependence of concepts and lexical meanings. Here are...
This study examines two types of semantic change, namely amelioration and pejoration, through compar...
This article reveals theoretical aspects of semantic changes in the English language, investigates i...
The aim of my work is to show the mechanisms of semantic change and the way they affected some of t...
The development of a language is stimulated by linguistic, historical and social causes and it resul...
It seems fairly obvious that if we accept the claim that semantic change is a cognitively motivated ...
Allo (2013) examined the retention of adjectives between Old and Modern English to determine that th...
Having become a Lingua Franca, English is undergoing constant changes in its phonetic, lexical and g...
This article has been accepted for publication by Edinburgh University Press: https://www.euppublish...
Before the printing press was invented, there was no recognized Standard English. There was no need ...
The article is devoted to the analysis of nominative processes and lexical changes occurring at the ...
In a recent conversation with a British friend, he and I reflected on evolution of various English w...
While it has long been understood that the human mind evolved to learn language, recent studies have...
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