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Have the concepts of 'anxiety' and 'depression' been normalized or pathologized? A corpus study of historical semantic change. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Xiao Y, Baes N, Vylomova E, Haslam N.
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Historical Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Rhesis, 2012 In this paper we investigate possible links between historical linguistics and cognitive science, or theory of the mind. Our primary goal is to demonstrate that historically documented processes of a certain type, i.e.
Philip Baldi, Paola Eulalia Dussias
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Diachronic semantic change in language is constrained by how people use and learn language. [PDF]
Mem Cognit, 2022 Li Y, Siew CSQ.
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Revered and reviled: a sentiment analysis of female and male referents in three languages
Frontiers in CommunicationOur study contributes to the less explored domain of lexical typology, focusing on semantic prosody and connotation. Semantic derogation, or pejoration of nouns referring to women, whereby such words acquire connotations and further denotations of social
Natalia Levshina +3 more
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, 2011 QITL-4 - Proceedings of Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 4, 29.03.2011 - 31.03.2011, Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, pp 79 ...
Sánchez-Marco, Cristina, Evert, Stefan
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Studies in English Language and EducationThis research examines the mechanisms of semantic change in English and German, focusing on comparing and contrasting these processes across the two languages and investigating the influence of major historical events and societal shifts.
Wahyu Kurniati Asri +3 more
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Development of Qualitative Meanings of Relative Adjectives denoting Materials
Научный диалог, 2017 The features of active in the modern Russian language process of transition of relative adjectives in the category of qualitative are discussed. The process of development of qualitative meanings of relative adjectives denoting attribute through relation
Y. Mao
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Semantic prosody, semantic transfer and semantic change
ICAME JournalAbstract This article investigates semantic prosody in a diachronic perspective. Although prosodies have been shown to change over time, there is no consensus regarding the source of such changes. The present study explores this further through a corpus study of the development of the lemmas fabric, fabricate and fabrication from the ...
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The Pre-Removal Detention of Immigrants: A Return to Ordinary Meaning
German Law JournalThe EU Return Directive demands that immigrant detention be as short as possible, but, by logical implication, this also means that detention can be as long as necessary.
Bas Schotel, Ingo Venzke
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French Loanwords in Canadian English: A Usage-Based Approach
Anglophonia, 2019 This paper focuses on the semantic evolution of French loanwords adopted into Canadian English from the seventeenth century onwards. Our lexical database of Canadianisms of French origin, extracted from historical dictionaries and works on contemporary ...
Julie Rouaud
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