LC CA Semantic Relations in Diachronic Word Families Nathanael E. Schweikhard Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology and Science of Human History Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Project CALC March 7, 2022 1 / 23
Method of Data Annotation ID SOURCE FORM SOURCE CONCEPT SOURCE PROCESS SEMANTIC RELATION ID TARGET FORM TARGET CONCEPT TARGET 1 gelücke good or bad fortune sound change taxonomy 2 glück good fortune 2 glück good fortune sound change contiguity 3 Glück happiness 1 gelücke good or bad fortune derivation taxonomy 4 ungelücke bad fortune 4 ungelücke bad fortune sound change unchanged inheritance 5 Unglück bad luck 12 / 23
Conclusion connection between method of innovation and semantic relation contiguity overall most important semantic relation taxonomy predominant in hearer-based innovations many other factors involved more data needed 22 / 23