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Meaning Narrowing

Meaning Narrowing is a type of semantic change in which a word's sense becomes more specific over time, restricted to a subset of its formerly broader reference.

8

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489

Citations

14

Authors

13

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Semantic NarrowingSpecialization

Parents

Publications

8

Relevance and lexical pragmatics

Deirdre Wilson · 2003 · 210 citations

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Corpus Analysis and Lexical Pragmatics: An Overview

Patricia Kolaiti, Deirdre Wilson · International Review of Pragmatics · 2014 · 75 citations · Full text

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Broadening and narrowing in lexical development: How relevance theory can account for children's overextensions and underextensions

Ewa Wałaszewska · Journal of Pragmatics · 2010 · 57 citations

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Ditransitives in Middle English: on semantic specialisation and the rise of the dative alternation

Eva Zehentner · English Language and Linguistics · 2017 · 51 citations

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Meaning change in a petri dish: constructions, semantic vector spaces, and motion charts

Martin Hilpert, Florent Perek · Linguistics Vanguard · 2015 · 40 citations · Full text

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Authors

14

  1. DW
    Deirdre Wilson

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 285 citations

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  2. LL
    Liquan Liu

    Western Sydney University, Australia

    1 publications · 23 citations

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  3. FP
    Florent Perek

    University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 40 citations

    1

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  4. EW
    Ewa Wałaszewska

    University of Warsaw, Poland

    1 publications · 57 citations

    1

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  5. PK
    Patricia Kolaiti

    New York College of Health Professions, United States

    1 publications · 75 citations

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Institutions

13

  1. Concordia University

    Montreal, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  2. University of Basel

    Basel, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    40 citations

  3. University of Agder

    Kristiansand, Norway

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    48 citations

  4. Stockholm University

    Stockholm, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  5. Western Sydney University

    Richmond, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  6. New York College of Health Professions

    Syosset, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    75 citations

  7. University of Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    51 citations

  8. EBS University of Business and Law

    Wiesbaden, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

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Venues

  1. English Language and Linguistics

    1 publications · 51 citations

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  2. International Review of Pragmatics

    1 publications · 75 citations

    1

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  3. Linguistics Vanguard

    1 publications · 40 citations

    1

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  4. Journal of Pragmatics

    1 publications · 57 citations

    1

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  5. Management Accounting Research

    1 publications · 21 citations

    1

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