![]() The meaning of a word can also change due to ellipsis, e.g. It was specialized and now means «regular rise and fall of the sea caused by attraction of the moon». When the French words «time», «season», and «hour» were borrowed into English they ousted the word «tide» in these meanings. the noun «tide» in Old English was polysemantic and denoted «time», season, hour. the conflict of synonyms when a perfect synonym of a native word is borrowed from some other language one of them may specialize in its meaning, and e.g. On the other hand causes can be linguistic, e.g. Still later any instrument for writing was called «a pen». As people wrote with goose pens the name was transferred to steel pens which were later on used for writing. Primarily «pen» comes back to the Latin word «penna» (a feather of a bird). the change of the lexical meaning of the noun «pen» was due to extra- linguistic causes. The causes of semantic changes can be extra-linguistic and linguistic, e.g. In such cases the outer aspect of a word does not change. Transfer of the meaning is called lexico - semantic word - building. Changes of lexical meanings can be proved by comparing contexts of different times. The meaning of a word can change in the course of time. ![]() The theme of the given course work is - Semantic changes and investigation its use and types.
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