The Dynamics of Semantic Change: A Corpus-Based Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Mohamed Amine Boukhaled ◽  
Benjamin Fagard ◽  
Thierry Poibeau
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Change

Regularity in Semantic Change

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Closs Traugott ◽  
Richard B. Dasher
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Change

Theoretical Approaches to the Functions of Indefinite Pronouns

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Haspelmath
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Features ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Intrinsic Properties ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Mental Spaces ◽  
Logical Semantics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Indefinite Pronouns

This chapter focuses on various theoretical approaches to the semantic and syntactic functions of indefinite pronouns. It begins with a discussion of structuralist semantics, which suggests that language is a system whose parts must be defined and described on the basis of their place in the system and their relation to each other, rather than on the basis of their own intrinsic properties. It then considers some of the problems associated with structuralist semantics, including the unclear status of the semantic features; significant overlap of the functions of grammatical items in many areas, including indefinite pronouns; and structuralist semantics makes wrong predictions about semantic change. The chapter proceeds by analysing logical semantics and the issues raised by this approach, along with syntactic approaches, the theory of mental spaces, pragmatic scales and scale reversal. Finally, it explains the relationship between focusing and sentence accent.

Review of Traugott & Dasher (2002): Regularity in semantic change

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Goossens
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Change

Analogy as a Factor in Semantic Change

Language ◽  
1926 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Kroesch
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Change

Weakly Supervised Semantic Change Detection via Label Refinement Framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuo Zheng ◽  
Yinhe Liu ◽  
Shiqi Tian ◽  
Junjue Wang ◽  
Ailong Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Change Detection ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Weakly Supervised

MRTA: Multi-Resolution Training Algorithm for Multitemporal Semantic Change Detection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianyue Bao ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Zixiao Zhang ◽  
Dafan Chen ◽  
Yuting Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Change Detection ◽  
Training Algorithm ◽  
Semantic Change

ChangeMask: Deep multi-task encoder-transformer-decoder architecture for semantic change detection

2022 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 228-239
Author(s):  
Zhuo Zheng ◽  
Yanfei Zhong ◽  
Shiqi Tian ◽  
Ailong Ma ◽  
Liangpei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Change Detection ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Decoder Architecture

Two Types of Constructionalization Processes in Spanish and Portuguese Clefted wh-interrogatives

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-160
Author(s):  
Malte Rosemeyer
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Puerto Rican Spanish ◽  
Question Under Discussion ◽  
Discourse Functions ◽  
Madrid Spanish ◽  
Spanish Dialects

Abstract The present paper analyzes and compares the use of clefted wh-interrogatives in spoken Madrid Spanish, Puerto Rican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. In a first step, a typology of the discourse functions of clefted wh-interrogatives is established. This typology is partially governed by the strength of the presupposition of the proposition of the wh-interrogative. The results suggest the existence of two distinct constructionalization processes 1 March 2021. First, in the Spanish dialects, clefted wh-interrogatives with copula deletion are specialized in the expression of interactional challenges. Second, both Puerto Rican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese evidence a change in the use of information-seeking clefted wh-interrogatives towards contexts in which the proposition of the interrogative is not activated. Consequently, in these dialects clefted wh-interrogatives can be used to establish questions not related to the current Question Under Discussion. However, this semantic change can be characterized as a constructionalization process only in Brazilian Portuguese.

‘Sich ausgehen’: On modalizing go constructions in Austrian German

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Remus Gergel ◽  
Martin Kopf-Giammanco
Keyword(s):  
Motion Verbs ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Verbal Construction

Abstract The goal of this article is to diagnose a verbal construction which has made it to common use in Austrian German and is typically unknown to many speakers of Federal German who have not been exposed to Austrian German. This construction is based on the verb gehen (‘go’) conjoined by a particle and the reflexive. An argument for its analysis as a degree-based sufficiency construction is developed, which is constructed by extending existing approaches in the literature on enough constructions and suggesting a meaning of the construction at hand, which is presuppositional in multiple respects. The results of diachronic corpus searches as well as the significance of the results of this work for the space of possibilities of the semantic change of motion verbs are discussed.

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