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