LANGUAGE THROUGH TIME
Concepts of Semantic Change/Drift
Amelioration: words that have taken on a positive term - its status is renewed
Pejoration: Taken on negative connotations - lost in status
Broadening: meaning becomes vast
Neatening: Becoming more specific
Function change/shift: syntactic change
Pejoration: Taken on negative connotations - lost in status
Broadening: meaning becomes vast
Neatening: Becoming more specific
Function change/shift: syntactic change
Grammatical change
"He told me in our journey" (preposition change)
"She was small of her age" (preposition change)
"She doubted not" (syntax, auxiliary verb - negative formation)
"To be taken into the account" (makes sense without the determiner)
"And much was ate" (past participle)
"I am so glad we are got acquainted" (use of two verbs)
"The properest manner" (attempt at a superlative)
"She was small of her age" (preposition change)
"She doubted not" (syntax, auxiliary verb - negative formation)
"To be taken into the account" (makes sense without the determiner)
"And much was ate" (past participle)
"I am so glad we are got acquainted" (use of two verbs)
"The properest manner" (attempt at a superlative)
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Dictionaries of the past...
- 1553: Thomas Wilson
- 1605: Richard Verstegan
- 1607: Daniel Defoe
- 1712: Jonathan Swift
- 1755: Samuel Johnson (first mass produced dictionary)
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