Browsing Education, Humanities and Social Sciences by Subject "Amelioration, Corpora, Lexical semantics, Pejoration, Semantic change"
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The semantic change of positive vs. Negative adjectives in Modern English
(Sciendo, 2018)This study examines two types of semantic change, namely amelioration and pejoration, through comparing the positive/negative senses of 20 English adjectives over time in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It also aims ...