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Meaning Extension

Meaning Extension is a lexical change process whereby a word acquires additional senses or referents beyond its original meaning, typically through mechanisms such as metaphor, metonymy, or generalization, while retaining its core semantic identity.

23

Publications

1.4K

Citations

32

Authors

19

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

3

Variants

Lexical ExtensionSemantic Extension

Parents

Publications

23

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Authors

32

  1. NA
    Nicholas Allott

    University of Oslo, Norway

    2 publications · 68 citations

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  2. DW
    Deirdre Wilson

    University College London, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 210 citations

    1

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  3. KC
    Keh-Jiann Chen

    Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

    1 publications · 17 citations

    1

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  4. LC
    Li–Li Chang

    China University of Geosciences, China

    1 publications · 17 citations

    1

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  5. JC
    Jaime Carbonell

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    1 publications · 46 citations

    1

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1–5 of 32

Institutions

19

  1. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    68 citations

  2. Fordham University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  3. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    56 citations

  4. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  5. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    36 citations

  6. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  7. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (United States)

    The Woodlands, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  8. Vienna University of Economics and Business

    Vienna, Austria

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    55 citations

1–8 of 19

Venues

  1. Eighteenth-Century Studies

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  2. Linguistics and Philosophy

    1 publications · 18 citations

    1

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  3. Mind

    1 publications · 42 citations

    1

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  4. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg)

    Repository · 1 publications · 23 citations

    1

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  5. Journal of Symbolic Logic

    1 publications · 241 citations

    1

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