Lexical change often begins and ends in semantic peripheries

Pragmatics and Cognition 25 (1):50-85 (2018)
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The article discusses semantic change and lexical replacement processes in the color domain, based on color naming studies in seven Germanic languages and from different generations of speakers in a single language. Change in the color domain often begins and ends in conceptual peripheries, and I argue that this perspective is suitable for other semantic domains as well.

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