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Lexical tectonics: Mapping structural change in patterns of lexification
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In: ISSN: 0721-9067 ; EISSN: 1613-3706 ; Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03092510 ; Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, De Gruyter, In press, The future of mapping: New avenues for semantic maps research (2021)
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International audience ; Whether it is based on philological data or on comparative research, historical linguistics accounts for modern words by formulating etymological hypotheses that entail changes both in form and in meaning. One way to represent semantic change is to describe modifications in “patterns of lexification”: a polysemous word, which once lexified senses s1–s2–s3, has evolved so it now encodes s3–s4– s5. Meanings that used to be colexified are now dislexified, and vice versa. Leaning on empirical data from Romance and from Oceanic (Vanuatu), this study proposes a general approach to historical lexicology, by identifying five types of structural innovations: split, merger, competition, shift, and relexification. The theoretical discussion is made easier by using a visual approach to structural change, in the form of diachronic maps. Semantic maps have already proven useful to represent synchronic patterns of lexification, outlining each language’s emic categories against a grid of etic senses. The same principle can be profitably used when analysing lexification patterns in diachrony: lexical change is then viewed as the reconfiguration of sense clusters in a semantic space. Maps help us visualize the “lexical tectonics” at play as words evolve over time, gradually shifting their meaning, gaining or losing semantic territory, colliding with each other, or disappearing forever.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; language change; lexical semantics; lexicon; Oceanic languages; semantic change; semantic maps; semiotics; structural linguistics; Vanuatu
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URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03092510
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Structural over-determination of education reforms and agency ... : Strukturna naddoločitev izobraževalnih reform in delovanje ...
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Structural over-determination of education reforms and agency ; Strukturna naddoločitev izobraževalnih reform in delovanje
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In: CEPS Journal 11 (2021) 2, S. 77-95 (2021)
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The transformation of the Baltic countries' political elites: general and specific features
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In: Baltic Region ; 12 ; 3 ; 26-39 (2020)
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Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change
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In: Languages ; Volume 4 ; Issue 3 (2019)
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Structural Justice: A critical feminist framework exploring the intersection between justice, equity and structural reconciliation.
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In: Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice (2019)
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The two cultures in Australian ELICOS: Industry managers respond to English language school teachers
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Frequency effects and structural change - the Afrikaans preterite
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, Vol 45, Iss 0, Pp 147-168 (2016) (2016)
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ESTUDIO ANALÍTICO DE LAS PALABRAS DE ORIGEN ÁRABE
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In: Tonos Digital; NÚMERO 24 - ENERO 2013 (2013)
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