Sentence examples for semantic shifts from inspiring English sources
These semantic shifts are at the core of sociotechnical change today.
The final result, after much page flipping and a few more semantic shifts: At court she receives no letters but those of a compilator of corantoes, but she weens to enjoy privily a tale of werewolves' congress.
There may be a connection here with the Sinitic 米 etymon '(rice) grain', and a Tani *mi etymon with the meaning 'millet' there, noting the semantic shifts and the rhyme problem.
One could also speculate that the Sinitic 'rice' form, the Burmese Panicum form and the first syllable of the Newari Setaria form are related, with various semantic shifts and affixes.
The best hypothesis appears to be that gathering and then cultivation of two millets *lu Panicum and *tsap Setaria was very early, but with full etymological evidence obscured by semantic shifts as Sinitic and TB groups acquired alternative grain crops and moved into new ecological zones.
Their meanings are not always directly reconstructible, due to semantic shifts that led to discrepancies in the meanings of reflexes in the attested daughter languages.
Here is a word that has undergone semantic shift, and lawyers are muttering about it.
It was a crucial semantic shift: the "illegal" construction gave the government the imprimatur, almost the obligation, to enact more punitive policies against asylum seekers.
In what appeared to be a semantic shift in policy on nuclear missiles, he said today that the 1972 treaty "is an important, but not the only component, of strategic stability".
In fact, the transition from Renaissance to modern sports can be seen in a semantic shift; the word measure, which once connoted a sense of balance and proportion, began to refer almost exclusively to numerical measurements.
So often have a certain set of euphemistic adjectives been applied to Brown that a strange semantic shift has taken place in my mind, and whenever I see them used in wholly unrelated circumstances, I almost have to remind myself of their pre-Brown meaning.
