Recent years have witnessed a surge of publications aimed at tracing temporal changes in
lexical semantics using distributional methods, particularly prediction-based word …

This article evaluates three proposed laws of semantic change. Our claim is that in order to
validate a putative law of semantic change, the effect should be observed in the genuine …

Languages are continuously undergoing changes, and the mechanisms that underlie these
changes are still a matter of debate. In this work, we approach language evolution through …

This paper investigates the historical (1850s–2000s) evolution of semantics in the English
language using contemporaneous, decade-specific computational estimates of word …

We present a method to explore semantic change as a function of variation in distributional
semantic spaces. In this paper, we apply this approach to automatically identify the areas of …

It is generally believed that when a linguistic item acquires a new meaning, its overall
frequency of use rises with time with an S-shaped growth curve. Yet, this claim has only …

Semantic change is attested commonly in the historical development of lexicons across the
world's languages. Extensive research has sought to characterize regularity in semantic …

The availability of large diachronic corpora has provided the impetus for a growing body of
quantitative research on language evolution and meaning change. The central quantities in …

Words of human languages change their meaning over time. This linguistic phenomenon is
known as 'diachronic semantic change'. Such shifts are of interest both for linguists and for …

While it has long been understood that the human mind evolved to learn language, recent
studies have begun to ask the inverted question: How has language evolved under the …