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This article discusses semantic change over the course of English history and how the semantic system of a language may be influenced by the historical and cultural conditions of the language. The analysis is based on a broad look at semantic change over the course of English history and a more detailed look at the semantic change of nouns and verbs that took place during the period 1450 to 1600.
The article covers a number of topics. The first is a brief history of the English language. The next major topic is the distinction between lexical semantic change and semantic change of language in its social and cultural context. Next is the analysis of the semantic change of nouns and verbs during the period 1450 to 1600. The final major topic is the influence that social and cultural factors have on lexical semantic change and the evolution of the English language.
The article covers a number of topics. The first is a brief history of the English language. The next major topic is the distinction between lexical semantic change and semantic change of language in its social and cultural context. Next is the analysis of the semantic change of nouns and verbs during the period 1450 to 1600.
The work of research on the sociality of the language-using mind and social use of language has also provided a contribution to the study of lexical change. This has been driven by work on the Stanford Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (SCL) , developed by William Connors (1987, 2004) and colleagues in the early 1980s. One aim of the SCL project was to study the development of linguistic norms for meaning and usage. This is a challenging task. The data available are inherently diachronic rather than synchronic, and there is no way of knowing whether the norms in question are present or absent in the speech of adults. However, the project developed a corpus-based scheme for making inferences about usage and meanings from texts, which is used in the research here. One element of the work on the SCL is that it has revealed two features of the course of language change in the development of the English language. First, there is evidence that grammatical forms are transferred at a slower rate than lexical forms, even in the development of dialects (Traugott, 2005). This is consistent with the findings of the work on the Dictionary, and with the idea that grammaticalization is a recursive, complex process. The second feature is that changes in meaning are not infrequent. However, they are strongly associated with changes in grammatical form, suggesting that the changes in meaning are not occurring in isolation. This is typical of work on lexicalization. In this case, what is occurring is a change in the meaning of a word by association with the use of a new grammatical form. The combined evidence suggests that both grammatical and lexical changes are part of an interactive process that may be guided by a variety of psychological, cognitive and social factors (e.g., Traugott & Trousdale, 2013). 827ec27edc