Entertainment / Literature / Linguistic Generalization: As Algeo defines it, 'A semantic change expanding the kinds of referents of a word' (319). I.e., in generalization, a word picks up broader meaning instead of becoming specialized, focused, and narrower in meaning.
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Entertainment / Literature / Overgeneralization: In linguistics, the introduction of a nonstandard or previously non-existent spelling or verb form when a speaker or writer makes an analogy to a regular spelling or a regular verb. For instance, a ch MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Linguistics: (from Latin lingua, 'tongue') The study of language as a system, as opposed to learning how to speak a foreign language. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Linguistic Generalization: As Algeo defines it, 'A semantic change expanding the kinds of referents of a word' (319). I.e., in generalization, a word picks up broader meaning instead of becoming specialized, focused, and narrow MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Linguistic Analogy: The modification of grammatical usage from the desire for uniformity. For instance, a child who states, 'I broked the toy' or a man who says 'I knowed the truth' is merely attempting to regularize the MORE