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<p>This article investigates semantic prosody in a diachronic perspective. Although prosodies have been shown to change over time, there is no consensus regarding the source of such changes. The present study explores this further through a corpus study of the development of the lemmas <sc>fabric</sc>, <sc>fabricate</sc> and <sc>fabrication</sc> from the late 15th century to the late 20th century, drawing on material from Early English Books Online, the Corpus of Late Modern English Texts and the British National Corpus. The results of the study show that prosodic changes coincide with the emergence of new senses and indicate that these processes are related to and possibly caused by semantic transfer induced by persistent prosodies over time.</p>
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This article investigates semantic prosody in a diachronic perspective. Although prosodies have been shown to change over time, there is no consensus regarding the source of such changes. The present study explores this further through a corpus study of the development of the lemmas fabric, fabricate and fabrication from the late 15th century to the late 20th century, drawing on material from Early English Books Online, the Corpus of Late Modern English Texts and the British National Corpus. The results of the study show that prosodic changes coincide with the emergence of new senses and indicate that these processes are related to and possibly caused by semantic transfer induced by persistent prosodies over time.

Semantic prosody, semantic transfer and semantic change

ICAME Journal

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This article investigates semantic prosody in a diachronic perspective. Although prosodies have been shown to change over time, there is no consensus regarding...

Semantic prosody, semantic transfer and semantic change

Publié en ligne: 28 mai 2024

Pages: 67 - 88

Reçu: 29 août 2023

Accepté: 18 janv. 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2024-0004

Mots clés
semantic prosody, semantic transfer, corpus linguistics, collocation, language change

© 2024 Mathias Russnes, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Semantic prosody, semantic transfer and semantic change

Publié en ligne: 28 mai 2024

Pages: 67 - 88

Reçu: 29 août 2023

Accepté: 18 janv. 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2024-0004

Mots cléssemantic prosody, semantic transfer, corpus linguistics, collocation, language change

© 2024 Mathias Russnes, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
semantic prosody, semantic transfer, corpus linguistics, collocation, language change