Computational approaches to semantic change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Computational approaches to semantic change write by Nina Tahmasebi. This book was released on 2021-08-30. Computational approaches to semantic change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Semantic change — how the meanings of words change over time — has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the study of language change. Compared to changes in sound and grammar, semantic change is the least understood. Ever since, the study of semantic change has progressed steadily, accumulating a vast store of knowledge for over a century, encompassing many languages and language families. Historical linguists also early on realized the potential of computers as research tools, with papers at the very first international conferences in computational linguistics in the 1960s. Such computational studies still tended to be small-scale, method-oriented, and qualitative. However, recent years have witnessed a sea-change in this regard. Big-data empirical quantitative investigations are now coming to the forefront, enabled by enormous advances in storage capability and processing power. Diachronic corpora have grown beyond imagination, defying exploration by traditional manual qualitative methods, and language technology has become increasingly data-driven and semantics-oriented. These developments present a golden opportunity for the empirical study of semantic change over both long and short time spans. A major challenge presently is to integrate the hard-earned knowledge and expertise of traditional historical linguistics with cutting-edge methodology explored primarily in computational linguistics. The idea for the present volume came out of a concrete response to this challenge. The 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange'19), at ACL 2019, brought together scholars from both fields. This volume offers a survey of this exciting new direction in the study of semantic change, a discussion of the many remaining challenges that we face in pursuing it, and considerably updated and extended versions of a selection of the contributions to the LChange'19 workshop, addressing both more theoretical problems — e.g., discovery of "laws of semantic change" — and practical applications, such as information retrieval in longitudinal text archives.
Regularity in Semantic Change
Regularity in Semantic Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regularity in Semantic Change write by Elizabeth Closs Traugott. This book was released on 2005-03-24. Regularity in Semantic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions. Drawing on extensive research from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.
From Polysemy to Semantic Change
From Polysemy to Semantic Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Polysemy to Semantic Change write by Martine Vanhove. This book was released on 2008. From Polysemy to Semantic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of polysemy, heterosemy, or semantic change at the lexical level. The first part presents a comprehensive state of the art of a domain typologists have long been reluctant to deal with. Part two focuses on theoretical and methodological approaches: cognition, construction grammar, graph theory, semantic maps, and data bases. These studies deal with universals and variation across languages, illustrated with numerous examples from different semantic domains and different languages. Part three is dedicated to detailed empirical studies of a large sample of languages in a limited set of semantic fields. It reveals possible universals of semantic association, as well as areal and cultural tendencies.
Introducing Semantics
Introducing Semantics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introducing Semantics write by Nick Riemer. This book was released on 2010-03-25. Introducing Semantics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Semantic Antics
Semantic Antics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Semantic Antics write by Sol Steinmetz. This book was released on 2009-02-04. Semantic Antics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "My favorite popular word book of the year" -William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008 A fun, new approach to examining etymology! Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example: The word adamant came into English around 855 C.E. as a synonym for 'diamond,' very different from today's meaning of the word: "utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion." Before the year 1200, the word silly meant "blessed," and was derived from Old English saelig, meaning "happy." This word went through several incarnations before adopting today's meaning: "stupid or foolish." In Semantic Antics, lexicographer Sol Steinmetz takes readers on an in-depth, fascinating journey to learn how hundreds of words have evolved from their first meaning to the meanings used today.
