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单词 semantic bleaching
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semantic bleaching
semantic bleaching n. Linguistics weakening or alteration of a word's meaning; spec. the loss of a word's semantic force as its syntactic or grammatical role becomes dominant.
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1980 N. Vincent in P. Ramat Ling. Reconstruction & Indo-European Syntax 56 The example of Latin passus ‘step’ yielding French pas. The process which seems to be operative here is a kind of semantic ‘bleaching’ whereby passus loses its independent semantic content and acquires its new and more general meaning from the syntactic environment ne —— in which it occurs with increasing frequency.
1991 N. C. Dorian in R. L. Cooper & B. Spolsky Infl. Lang. on Culture & Thought 97 Some of these borrowings had been in use among non-Jewish speakers long enough to have an ‘English meaning’ somewhat different from their original meaning in Yiddish, with the change usually in the direction of semantic bleaching: mensch had lost some of the positive force of the Yiddish equivalent and meant roughly ‘fine fellow, fine person’.
2003 S. Nicolle in K. M. Jaszczolt & K. Turner Meaning Through Lang. Contrast II. 5 When a verb of movement, direction or position or an expression involving such a verb is the lexical source for a gram such as a tense marker, semantic bleaching typically results in the loss of the semantic component of physical movement, direction or position.
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