Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How Words
Change (the basics)
- Diachronic Change
- the study of how language evolves through time
- Synchronic Change
- the study of language as it exists at one point in time
- Narrowing
- a word's meaning becomes less broad
- Broadening
- a word's meaning becomes wider
- Amelioration
- when a word's meaning becomes more positive over time
- Perjoration
- when a word's meaning becomes more negative over time