Semantic Shift?

[Margaret Lee]

If it's not too late to respond to this:  semantic
shift occurs when a word's original meaning changes
completly.  When a word's meaning is expanded to
include not only its original meaning, but additional
meaning, the process is known as *broadening*.


--- Kathleen Miller <millerk at NYTIMES.COM> wrote:
>
> Mr. Safire is writing a special issue on Noo Yawkese
> and we're stuck with a
> lingusitic question. What is it called when a
> phrase, such as "get out of
> here", assumes a different meaning? Is it sematic
> shift, or is there another
> name for it?
>
>
> Kathleen E. Miller
> Research Assistant to William Safire
> The New York Times
>
> "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It
> is only with the heart
> that one can see rightly; what is essential is
> invisible to the
> eye."                 Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - English and Linguistics
& University Editor
Department of English
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