Megan Tiddeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 9535856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Tiddeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Tiddeman |
| SIGNATURE | TIDDEMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lexical borrowing in the Middle English period
The Middle English period is well known as one of widespread lexical borrowing from French and Latin, and scholarly accounts traditionally assume that this influx of loanwords caused many native terms to shift in sense or to drop out of use entirely. The study analyses an extensive dataset, tracking patterns in lexical retention, replacement and semantic change, and comparing long-term outcomes for both native and non-native words. Our results ch…
Semantic Shift in Middle English
This paper presents a study undertaken as part of the Technical Language and Semantic Shift in Middle English project. Our dataset (totalling 4,628 words and 2,215 senses) is drawn from an expanded corpus of the Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England . This lexis has been arranged into a semantic hierarchy, based on the categories devised for the Historical Thesaurus of English, in order to address a much discussed feature of la…
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Lexical borrowing in the Middle English period
The Middle English period is well known as one of widespread lexical borrowing from French and Latin, and scholarly accounts traditionally assume that this influx of loanwords caused many native terms to shift in sense or to drop out of use entirely. The study analyses an extensive dataset, tracking patterns in lexical retention, replacement and semantic change, and comparing long-term outcomes for both native and non-native words. Our results ch…
Semantic Shift in Middle English
This paper presents a study undertaken as part of the Technical Language and Semantic Shift in Middle English project. Our dataset (totalling 4,628 words and 2,215 senses) is drawn from an expanded corpus of the Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England . This lexis has been arranged into a semantic hierarchy, based on the categories devised for the Historical Thesaurus of English, in order to address a much discussed feature of la…
Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Middle English (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)