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A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change (2013)
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Beeching, K. (2013). A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change. In K. Aijmer, & B. Altenberg (Eds.), Advances in corpus-based contrastive linguistics. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson (103-125). Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Traugott and Dasher (2002) draw our attention to items at the extreme right of the spectrum of semantic change where the canonical or core meaning is almost entirely bleached. Lexicographers and semanticists have struggled to pin down the senses of s... Read More about A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change.