the unidirectionality of semantic change: From less to more situated in language

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs

doi:10.1075/cilt.65.28clo

In:Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Edited by Sylvia M. Adamson, Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 65] 1990
► pp. 497–518

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From less to more situated in language

the unidirectionality of semantic change

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Published online: 1 January 1990

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.65.28clo

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