Essays about: "diachronic semantic change"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words diachronic semantic change.

  1. 1. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Andreas Johansson; [2022]
    Keywords : corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

    Abstract : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Study of Semantic Change in the Word viral

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Author : Eldar Jusovic; [2022]
    Keywords : Semantics; Semantic change; Diachronic change; Corpus; Collocation; Context analysis; viral; WWW; dictionaries;

    Abstract : With diachronic corpus over the time periods, I selected a word that might be suitable for this type of study for detecting if potential semantic changes have occurred. In this study, I explored the lexical semantics of the word viral to see if the World Wide Web (WWW) has influenced the word. READ MORE

  4. 3. WANNA BE ON TOP? The Hyperparameter Search for Semantic Change's Next Top Model

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Kate Viloria; [2021-09-22]
    Keywords : semantic change; language change; diachronic word embeddings;

    Abstract : Lexical semantic change (LSC) detection through the use of diachronic corpora and computational methods continues to be a prevalent research area in language change (Tahmasebi et al., 2018). READ MORE

  5. 4. Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection with Context-Dependent Word Representations

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Huiling You; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In this work, we explore the usefulness of contextualized embeddings from language models on lexical semantic change (LSC) detection. With diachronic corpora spanning two time periods, we construct word embeddings for a selected set of target words, aiming at detecting potential LSC of each target word across time. READ MORE

  6. 5. Bug Report: A Study of Semantic Change during the Digital Revolution

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Johan Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : Semantics; Diachronic change; Semantic Change; Corpus; Collocation; Context analysis.;

    Abstract : Semantic change is a phenomenon that has been subject to a lot of research during the past few decades. However, a large part of the existing research has been conducted with the goal of finding causes of change or creating typologies in order to classify different types of changes. READ MORE