Sentence examples for semantic changes from inspiring English sources

The members of the committee made a number of merely semantic changes, and they also expanded somewhat the list of charges against the king.

Semantic changes take place all along (see below Linguistic change), and at any moment the semantic area covered by a word is indeterminately bordered and differs from context to context.

The task force favored making semantic changes that some psychiatrists have long argued for, trading the term "mental retardation" for "intellectual disability," for instance, and "substance abuse" for "addiction".

Historical linguistics, also called Diachronic Linguistics, the branch of linguistics concerned with the study of phonological, grammatical, and semantic changes, the reconstruction of earlier stages of languages, and the discovery and application of the methods by which genetic relationships among languages can be demonstrated.

In a long chapter on government-tribe relations since the revolution, Beck writes interestingly about these semantic changes and their implication among the Qashqa'i, throwing light on official and local usages.

As for paraphrases, TSR programs often spot the possible sources when just some words are switched out but may fail when confronted with numerous morpholexiconic, structural or semantic changes (Barrón-Cedeño et al. 2012, p. 917 and 920).

First, with its emphasis on the principles of semantic change, historical-philological semantics was the first systematic framework to focus on the dynamic nature of word meaning, and to see the contextual flexibility of words as the primary phenomenon that a lexical semantic theory should aim to account for (Nerlich & Clarke 1996, 2007).

And connectedness may accelerate the pace of semantic change.

"So from Israel's perspective, it is a semantic change".

"That's a good semantic change," Snowy Wilderness said, heading for the door.

Languages change in all their aspects, in their pronunciation, word forms, syntax, and word meanings (semantic change).