CAUSES AND TYPES OF SEMANTIC WORD CHANGES
Keywords:
language, lexical meaning, polysemantic words, typology of semantic changes, extralinguisticAbstract
This article reveals theoretical aspects of semantic changes in the English language, investigates its types and causes. External and internal factors in change of meaning of words are explained as well as shifts in the meaning of synonymic fields of words.
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