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En la Ciudad de México se hallan contextos en los que ahorita no puede ser interpretado como puntual ni como cercano al momento del habla. Este comportamiento es investigado como resultado de un proceso de atenuación semántica, bajo la hipótesis de ...
Daniel Granados
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Semantic Change of the Word “dowlat” in Persian: A Study based on Prototype Theory [PDF]
In this paper we investigated the semantic change of the word “dowlat” in the history of Persian prose from the 4th century (Hijri) until now. Though seemingly the meaning of this word has not changed dramatically, but it has been used with 21 different ...
Bistoon Abasi +3 more
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Changing Definitions of Climate in Polish and English Dictionaries
The present article sets out to examine the dictionary definition entries concerning the concept of climate. Both Polish and English dictionaries are included, as well as historical and contemporary entries.
Marta Kwaśniewska
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Quando o velho esconde o novo: antigas palavras, novos significados
Em épocas de mudança social acelerada, a criação de palavras para dar conta da nova realidade torna-se imediatamente visível. Ao mesmo tempo, mas de modo geralmente invisível porque em grande parte inconsciente, ocorre a transformação dos significados de
Ana Maria Nicolaci-da-Costa
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The reprise evidential conditional (REC) is nowadays not very usual in Catalan: it is restricted to journalistic language and to some very formal genres (such as academic or legal language), it is not present in spontaneous discourse. On the one hand, it
Josep Martines
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‘Sorry, I Don’t Want Them Here.’ Migration in Slovak Political Discourse
The issue of international migration in Slovakia was not a topic of public discussion until 2015. A major change in migration discourse can be observed only after the mass migratory processes in 2015, a few weeks before the Slovak parliamentary elections.
R. Štefančík, A. Kiner
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This paper offers an analysis of a robustly attested semantic change in which progressive markers “spontaneously” emerge in languages, become entrenched in the grammatical system, and diachronically generalize by turning into imperfective ...
Ashwini Deo
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The status of new English loanwords in the language of secondary school students [PDF]
Language change is an important characteristic of any language, and its manifestations are most obvious in the structure and content of the lexicon. The lexicon of the Serbian language has been changing not only as a result of various word formation ...
Gavranović Valentina M. +1 more
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Quantitative Approaches to Grammaticalization
Grammaticalization may entail a variety of non-essential mechanisms, such as schematization or lexicalization. What these processes have in common is a semantic expansion of the grammaticalizing form, translated empirically into a frequency increase ...
Quentin Feltgen
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