Semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression, semantic development, or semantic drift) is a form of language change regarding the evolution...

and to personal preference. Semantic changes are shifts in the meanings of existing words. Basic types of semantic change include: pejoration, in which...

analogical change wherein a particular form influences the pronunciation of a semantically related form, without bringing about any change in the meaning...

specific example is semantic change, which is a change in a single word's meaning. The boundary between word formation and semantic change can be difficult...

a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e., change in a word's meaning). Linguistic reclamation can have wider...

result in a semantic change—a real new meaning that is then commonly used in a language. For example, the Portuguese humoroso 'capricious' changed its meaning...

A semantic loan is a process of borrowing semantic meaning (rather than lexical items) from another language, very similar to the formation of calques...

extended metaphorically. Metaphor in semantic change involves extensions in the meaning of a word that suggest a semantic similarity or connection between...

Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives...

tends to become obscured through time due to sound change or semantic change. Due to sound change, it is not readily obvious that the English word set...

delimiters. In historical linguistics, a sound change is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech...

pre- etc., introduce a semantic change to the word they are attached to. Inflectional affixes introduce a syntactic change, such as singular into plural...

doctor. Beginning in the twentieth century, the word mojo underwent semantic change in American culture in movies and songs and came to refer to sexuality...

hypothesis of the regularity of sound change. According to the Neogrammarian hypothesis, a diachronic sound change affects simultaneously all words in which...

substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". Semantic change has expanded the definition of the literary term trope to also describe...

This "spawning" of slang occurs in much the same way that any general semantic change might occur. The difference here is that the slang term's new meaning...

"Human contribution to the record-breaking June 2019 heat wave in France". Semantic Scholar. S2CID 199454488. Weart, Spencer (October 2008). The Discovery...

(problem) soils in certain areas of the site are encountered. Through semantic change the word underpinning has evolved to encompass all abstract concepts...

series of textbooks is still in use at many Indian schools. While semantic change has dated the original books, they continue to enjoy considerable popularity...

The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0 (not to be confused with Web3), is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide...

apparent parallelism between, for example, Latino and Anglo. However, a semantic change has taken place in many English-speaking regions so that in informal...

Interlingual homograph Idiom Metonymy Monosemy Polytely Pronoun game Pun Semantic change Euphemism treadmill Syncretism (linguistics) Syntactic ambiguity Troponymy...

ISBN 9783110164169. Lehrer, Adrienne (1985). "The influence of semantic fields on semantic change" (PDF). Historical Semantics, Historical Word Formation. Walter...

Cognates need not have the same meaning, as they may have undergone semantic change as the languages developed independently. For example English starve...

19th–early 20th century sociological concept Degeneration, a type of semantic change D-Generation X, also spelled "Degeneration X", a professional wrestling...

as phono-semantic matching. In languages with a long and detailed history, etymology makes use of philology, the study of how words change from culture...

the translation of a scene from Plutarch's Life of Caesar and the semantic change of the word "carpet" over time. The work is considered a classic example...

PMID 17928859. Jatowt, Adam; Duh, Kevin (2014). "A framework for analyzing semantic change of words across time" (PDF). IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries...

languages", in Vanhove, Martine (ed.), From Polysemy to Semantic change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations, Studies in Language Companion Series...

Understanding. Vol. 2. Tucker, Susie I. (1972). Enthusiasm: A Study in Semantic Change. Cambridge [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-08263-1...