Semantic Bleaching is a diachronic semantic process in which a lexical item loses specific conceptual content or referential precision over time, resulting in a more abstract, generalized, or functionally reduced meaning within the linguistic system.
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Semantic Weakening
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From lexical to grammatical to social meaning
Rena Torres Cacoullos · Language in Society · 2001 · 144 citations
Prosody and function of English comment clauses
Gunther Kaltenböck · Folia Linguistica · 2008 · 61 citations
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University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, United States
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1 publications
144 citations
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Lisbon, Portugal
1 h-index
1 publications
36 citations
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
1 h-index
1 publications
91 citations
University of Victoria
Victoria, Canada
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1 publications
28 citations
UCLouvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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1 publications
20 citations
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
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1 publications
28 citations
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
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University of California System
Oakland, United States
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1 publications
16 citations
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- Folia Linguistica
3 publications · 127 citations
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- English Language and Linguistics
1 publications · 28 citations
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- Lingvisticae Investigationes
1 publications · 20 citations
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- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
1 publications · 414 citations
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- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
Repository · 1 publications · 10 citations
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