THEORIES OF SEMANTIC CHANGE:Three Approaches from the First Half of the
20th century
Abstract
This paper focuses on three approaches to the study of semantic change
from the first half of the 20th century. This was a period when
diachronic linguistic study was giving way to synchronic linguistics
under the influence of Structuralist approaches. The scholars in focus
in this paper are Antoine Meillet, Gustaf Stern, and Stephen Ullmann.