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SMC Sematic Change Paper

What type of semantic change would these be?

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What type of semantic change would these be? choices: widening, narrowing, metaphor, metonymy, displacement, synecdoche, degeneration, elevation, hyperbole and litotes 1. you (pl) > you (sg/pl) (note: The Old English word ye ‘you (pl)’ eventually came to be the only second-person pronoun you, as thou ‘you (sg)’ fell out of common use) 2. flow > deluge/flood (note: The Old English word flōd ‘deluge; flood’ comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleu ‘flow’.) 3. walking (hospital) > ambulance (note: The modern French word ambulance ‘ambulance’ was originally hôpital ambulant ‘walking hospital’.) 4. strike > touch (note: The Latin word toccare ‘to strike’ evolved into the French word toucher ‘to touch’.) 5. honey/brown > bear (note: In many Indo-European languages, the word for ‘bear’ comes from other Proto-Indo-European sources rather than the original root *h₂r̥tḱo ‘bear’, such as *medʰu ‘honey’ and *bʰer ‘brown’. This was likely a case of taboo avoidance because the bear was such a dangerous threat to early humans that even saying its name was too terrifying) 6. skull > head 7. saw > mountain range (note:The Spanish word sierra ‘mountain range’ evolved from the Latin word serra ‘saw (tool)’.) 8. hand > worker 9. six > nap (note:The Spanish word siesta ‘nap’ comes from the Latin word sexta ‘six’, because the sixth hour of the day was when naps were traditionally taken.) 10. crane (bird) > crane (equipment) 11. child > girl For each of the following descriptions of a semantic change, select the one type of change that best categorizes it. If two or more types are possible, choose the most specific; for example, choose synecdoche if relevant instead of metonymy, choose elevation/degeneration if relevant instead of narrowing/widening, choose litotes/hyperbole if relevant instead of metaphor, etc. Answer choices: widening, narrowing, metaphor, metonymy, displacement, synecdoche, degeneration, elevation, hyperbole or litotes 1. you (pl) > you (sg/pl) (note: The Old English word ye ‘you (pl)’ eventually came to be the only second-person pronoun you, as thou ‘you (sg)’ fell out of common use) 2. flow > deluge/flood (note: The Old English word flōd ‘deluge; flood’ comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleu ‘flow’.) 3. walking (hospital) > ambulance (note: The modern French word ambulance ‘ambulance’ was originally hôpital ambulant ‘walking hospital’.) 4. strike > touch (note: The Latin word toccare ‘to strike’ evolved into the French word toucher ‘to touch’.) 5. honey/brown > bear (note: In many Indo-European languages, the word for ‘bear’ comes from other Proto-Indo-European sources rather than the original root *h₂r̥tḱo ‘bear’, such as *medʰu ‘honey’ and *bʰer ‘brown’. This was likely a case of taboo avoidance because the bear was such a dangerous threat to early humans that even saying its name was too terrifying) 6. skull > head
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