Languages are not uniform. Speakers of different language varieties use certain words
differently–more or less frequently, or with different meanings. We argue that distributional …

This study aims to track diachronic semantic shift in a small set of monomorphemes
collected from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), carrying the initial fl-phonestheme, such …

Sažetak This preliminary study of 285 morphological and cognitive blends (attestation dates
1200-2012) aims to investigate the role of phonesthemes in the structuring of the English …

Psychological researchers have traditionally focused on lab-based experiments to test their
theories and hypotheses. Although the lab provides excellent facilities for controlled testing …

This article discusses a corpus-based method for the automatic identification of synonyms
across different varieties of the same language. This method, based on the paradigm of …

The etymologies of English blood and bone are obscure. Although their cognates are well
represented in the Germanic family, both lack clear cognates in other Indo-European …

Cette étude de sémantique lexicale se déroule en trois temps. En premier lieu, elle vise à
faire le point sur l'existence en diachronie d'un mécanisme de réanalyse motivée par la …

More than a century ago, in a vivid metaphorical image, Bloomfield (1895: 409) likened the
appearance of phonesthemes to an animal on the hunt:'Every word, in so far as it is …

This doctoral thesis aims at elucidating the processes of semantic change in short diachrony
(or micro-diachrony) in corpus. To understand, analyze and model the dynamics of these …

There is an increased risk of medication error and harm to a patient whenever 2 or more
drug product names appear alike in sound, look, or meaning. Any ambiguity of the …