LEADER 02542nam 2200397 450 001 9910774893203321 005 20230222233752.0 035 $a(CKB)5590000000629438 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000629438 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000629438 100 $a20230222d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aComputational approaches to semantic change$hVolume 6 /$fedited by Nina Tahmasebi [and four others] 210 1$aBerlin :$cLanguage Science Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (396 pages) 225 1 $aLanguage variation 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aSemantic change - how the meanings of words change over time - has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the study of language change. Compared to changes in sound and grammar, semantic change is the least understood. Ever since, the study of semantic change has progressed steadily, accumulating a vast store of knowledge for over a century, encompassing many languages and language families. Historical linguists also early on realized the potential of computers as research tools, with papers at the very first international conferences in computational linguistics in the 1960s. Such computational studies still tended to be small-scale, method-oriented, and qualitative. However, recent years have witnessed a sea-change in this regard. Big-data empirical quantitative investigations are now coming to the forefront, enabled by enormous advances in storage capability and processing power. Diachronic corpora have grown beyond imagination, defying exploration by traditional manual qualitative methods, and language technology has become increasingly data-driven and semantics-oriented. These developments present a golden opportunity for the empirical study of semantic change over both long and short time spans. 410 0$aLanguage variation. 517 $aComputational approaches to semantic change 606 $aLanguage arts 606 $aLanguage arts$zUnited States 615 0$aLanguage arts. 615 0$aLanguage arts 676 $a372.6 702 $aTahmasebi$b Nina 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910774893203321 996 $aComputational approaches to semantic change$93007476 997 $aUNINA