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 Translation for 'semantic change' from English to French
ling.
glissement {m} sémantique
semantic change
Partial Matches
ling.
champ {m} lexical
semantic field
déplacement {m} [de l'âge de retraite]change
évoluerto change
avatar {m} [changement]change
changement {m}change
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s'altérer [sentiments, expression]to change
se transformerto change
transformer qc. [société]to change sth.
pol.
changer de bord
to change sides
écon.
changement {m} économique
economic change
changer complètementto change totally
changer lentementto change slowly
changer complètementto change completely
changer complètementto totally change
bouger [changer]to change oneself
bouleversement {m}radical change
changer complètementto completely change
math.
taux {m} de variation
percentage change
vêt.
se changer
to change clothes
changer d'adresseto change lodgings­
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Usage Examples English
  • although with a semantic change or an ironic twist.
  • ... of a plant), a semantic change from a Late Latin meaning "to be enlivening, quickening".
  • It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e. change in a word's meaning).
  • The "wrong kind of/type of" part of the phrase has itself been shown to exemplify semantic change, having undergone a process of grammaticalization to move from an impartial description of weather conditions to become a politically loaded signifier of failure.
  • Document in Context of its Time (DICT) analysis style and an online demo tool allow in an interactive way let users know whether the vocabulary used by an author of an input text was frequent at the time of text creation, whether the author used anachronisms or neologisms, and enables detecting terms in text that underwent considerable semantic change.

  • One specific example is semantic change, which is a change in a single word's meaning.
  • The office of the Samanta represented a semantic change in state formation from an independent neighbour to a tributary chief and finally to a high ranking court official.
  • A number of classification schemes have been suggested for semantic change.
  • While semantic change has dated the original books, they continue to enjoy considerable popularity and updated versions are now in common use.
  • Critics of the law see this as merely a semantic change and maintain that no empirical studies support claims of the use of techniques of coercive persuasion by NRMs.

  • Through semantic change the word underpinning has evolved to encompass all abstract concepts that serve as a foundation.
  • While the origin of newly emerged words is often more or less transparent, it tends to become obscured through time due to sound change or semantic change.
  • This "spawning" of slang occurs in much the same way that any general semantic change might occur.
  • In historical onomasiology or in historical linguistics, a metaphor is defined as a semantic change based on a similarity in form or function between the original concept and the target concept named by a word.
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