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	Semantic drift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Semantic drift, in historical linguistics, is a phenomenon whereby words change in meaning over a period of time, resulting in semantic differences between cognates.
		For instance, the English word to starve is cognate with the German sterben ("to die").
		Though both words arose from a common West Germanic root sterb-a- ("to die"), and their meanings are still somewhat related, semantic* drift has caused their specific meanings to differ.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semantic_drift (200 words)

	ANCESTORS AS ELDERS IN AFRICA
		The semantic core of -kulu (-kuru, -kolo, -koro, -guru)and its usual semantic field in Bantu languages includes 'to grow up, to mature, to become adult, to become old, to be important' (with their respective adjective and noun forms).
		By contrast with -kulu, -koko appears to be a semantically primary term and the pattern of its semantic drift is in the opposite direction: it stands for 'ancestor' alone or 'ancestor/grandparent' or 'ancestor/grandparent/elder'.
		Their semantic cores are identical ('big/old/grown') and they show similar semantic drifts towards 'important', 'elders', and 'ancestors'.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Fdtl/Ancestors/kopytoff.html (6910 words)

	Yuri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Japanese, the term is typically used to mean any lesbian content, whether sexual or romantic, explicit or implied; the term shōjo-ai is not found in this context.
		In fanfiction, yuri is also occasionally used as an approximate synonym of the American term femmeslash, although use of the term still indicates knowledge or relevance of Japanese anime and manga.
		One frequently heard derivation is that the term originates from the large number of yuri hentai dōjinshi containing characters named "Yuri" or "Yuriko".
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Yuri (728 words)

	Sensible Marks of Ideas - Libertarianism and semantics
		Semantic drift is a fact of linguistic life, and we should learn to live with it.
		However, sometimes semantic drift becomes more of a semantic landslide, and maybe a little linguistic conservatism is in order.
		So far, what we have seen is normal semantic drift, and not a very great one at that, since for both right- and left-wing libertarians, individual liberty remained paramount.
	www.livejournal.com /users/solri/247252.html (1141 words)

	Semantics of Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A lot of the difference is due to semantic drift over the years, but the point is that all are words denoting something incorporeal, intangible, un-observable etc.
		The same semantic can even be represented in different languages with totally different representations that don't even have some sort of similarity between each other, but within a given language the representations should have a structural similarity to avoid confusion.
		A strong initial semantic response triggered by an outside stimulus feeds into the semantic networks and the ensuing resonances with associative feedbacks forms a shifting global semantic response fuzzy and vague in places, intense and specific others, and possibly not subsiding for hours after the initial trigger.
	home.earthlink.net /~sroof/Abraxas/sar/semicons.htm (7716 words)

	Teacher Discussion Forums :: View topic - Basic semantic meanings of modal auxiliaries.
		That said, I hasten to acknowledge that all languages, English included, drift from the core (or perhaps we should say, original) meanings of many of their elements, both lexical and grammatical.
		However, those extensions of the core meaning, which may be semantically rather different, sometimes become more frequent and important than the core original meaning itself.
		Semantic meaning cannot account for poetry, motivated speech, sociopolitical context, the speaker-audience relationship, irony, attitude, implication, or moral significance.
	eslcafe.com /forums/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=17048&... (1382 words)

	RE: First Order Logic and Semantic Web RE: NPR, Godel, Semantic W eb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It may be a problem for the free-wheeling web where people are allowed to put anything on the system, but that is the risk and the freedom.
		The harder problem is semantic drift where the original meaning gets lost and the intent warps.
		Semantic systems are services and I suspect the most useful ones will be very local.
	www.stylusstudio.com /xmldev/200105/post80410.html (583 words)

	Ling 001 Lecture 7: Historical Linguistics and Linguistic Typology
		Semantic changes usually take the form of drift in the meaning of a particular word, sometimes randomly, but usually on a roughly metaphoric path, like that of trivial described above.
		That is, while we can talk about types of semantic change that are more or less likely, we cannot usually make broad statements about semantic changes within a given language.
		While we have begun to understand syntactic and semantic change fairly well over the past few decades, the biggest success story in hitorical linguistics (and perhaps in linguistics in general) is in our understanding of sound change, i.e.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /courses/Summer_2004/ling001/lecture7.html (7375 words)

	Lexical Frequency in Morphology: Is Everything Relative? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		First, the results of a simple experiment demonstrate that subjects perceive derived forms which are more frequent than their bases to be significantly less complex than matched counterparts which are less frequent than their bases.
		And second, dictionary calculations reveal that derived forms which are more frequent than their bases are significantly more likely to display symptoms of semantic drift than derived forms containing higher frequency bases.
		High frequency forms however, are no more prone to semantic drift than low frequency forms.
	www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz /jen/documents/lexfreq.html (202 words)

	Questioning Representations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is termed a problem of "ontological drift", and arises whenever several distinct semantic communities work on the "same" system.
		When the notes cross the boundary between the two semantic communities of office workers and systems analysts, the living connection to the original work process is lost.
		The passing of work between different semantic communities, each with their own ontologies, epistemologies, and conventions; each interpreting and recontextualising the products of other communities, generates a phenomenon we term ontological drift.
	www.ul.ie /~idc/library/papersreports/LiamBannon/15/QuestFin.html (5173 words)

	RE: [plcs-dex] Requirements for annotation classes.
		Two major sources of semantic drift are Business Process Re-engineering and the introduction of new computer tools.
		These can cause substantial semantic drift in a matter of a few years.
		An example, for those of you familiar with the Warton CM system DPDS, the term "Drawing" came to mean the drawing control record held in DPDS.
	www.oasis-open.org /archives/plcs-dex/200407/msg00024.html (495 words)

	Big Fractal Tangle: Evangelizing
		My last period of lateral drift was the fall of 2003, wherein I found the Semantic Web and started this blog.
		Since then, I've learned there's an even greater challenge: convincing developers that RDF and the Semantic Web are genuinely worth the training time required before they pigeonhole it and write it off as hype.
		The word "semantic" is one of those words people sort of understand, but not completely.
	bigfractaltangle.com /archive/cat_evangelizing.jsp (1399 words)

	Re: Last Call: An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters to BCP
		In every example I can think of where one data model is exported into a different context there has been semantic drift, even when the same names and official definitions were retained.
		That's true to a point, but it also seems to be the case that controlled vocabularies that need to have consistent meaning across large groups need very careful definition and, well, "control".
		At the same time, by explicitly exporting them we are encouraging semantic drift.
	www.ietf.org /mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg21943.html (1930 words)

	SUO: RE: RE: ontology as science
		Yet this characteristic/feature - semantic drift > - requires some method be included with the SUO to govern its > evolution over time in response to changing requirements.
		Lexicographers analyze semantic drift in exactly > the same way that geologists analyze continental drift.
		The Indoeuropean word for salmon (lachs) is still > common in modern languages, as are the words for mother, > father, sister, brother, beech tree, etc. Since there were > no salmon in India, the word "lachs" was transferred to the > the color from which we have the English "lacquer".
	grouper.ieee.org /groups/suo/email/msg09966.html (743 words)

	Knowledge Management - Reading exercise - Davenport and Cronin (n.d.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The following questions should be considered as you read the paper "Knowledge management: semantic drift or conceptual shift" by Davenport and Cronin (n.d.).
		These are likely to include (and may not be limited to): explicit, MARC data, ontology, meta (as applied to the word "data" on page 5), semantic, structural capital, tacit and thesauri.
		When preparing your answer think of how learning material is presented to you, how you are expected to study, and the range of learning activities planned.
	www.dcs.napier.ac.uk /~hazelh/lec_archive/km_ex_dav_cr.htm (445 words)

	SIGIA-L Mail Archives
		Results for Semantic CMS 1 to 20 of 21 results.
		drift" The tool of multiple inheritance is the very own that poise the speech into
		drift”, and the challenges of using ontologies in...
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	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		In the years following the Civil War, shebang went with the flow of post-war semantic drift, describing fewer barracks and more civilian structures: "'Pears like hit might be a solid ole shebang,' he mused, as he stood looking at the.
		This etymology is logical for another meaning of shebang, 'a vehicle', as in Mark Twain's Roughing It: "This shebang's chartered, and we can't let you pay a cent" (1871).
		The connection between a horse-drawn carriage and a shelter is either the whitewater-rapids version of semantic drift, or just plain wrong.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=20000203 (565 words)

	yrui information,yuri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Japanese,the term is typically used to mean any lesbian content, whether sexual or romantic, explicit or implied; the term shōjo-ai is not found in this context.
		One frequently heardderivation is that the term originates from the large number of yrui hentai dōjinshi containing characters named "yrui" or "yruiko".
		(Variants of this may namespecific characters, often yrui of the Dirty Pair.) Another suggested derivation is that the lily-flower was originally associated poetically withfemale-female relationships, and that the poetic use of the term gradually drifted into common use.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /yrui.html (709 words)

	RE: Are we losing out because of grammars? (Re: Schema ambiguitydetecti
		I'm sitting here trying to finish an article for a magazine on semantic web issues to examine operational issues of the semantic web.
		While the cheerleaders for the semantic web cheer loudly, there are also soft whispers of caution from the gallery.
		The possibility of the semantic web equivalent of chinese whispers would be a reasonably serious problem.
	www.stylusstudio.com /xmldev/200101/post61060.html (296 words)

	Semantic Drift (Forerunner Commentary) :: Bible Tools
		Since that time, the English language has accumulated hundreds of thousands of new words, and word meanings have shifted (technically called "semantic drift"), in some cases drastically.
		If we were to read between the lines, Paul might be saying, "You Athenians are to be commended for your devotion to spiritual things." The King James' rendering of "religious" as "superstitious" exposes the latter word as having undergone what linguists call semantic drift.
		In Shakespeare's day and King James' time, this word did not have the negative connotation as it does now.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/2695 (634 words)

	KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: SEMANTIC DRIFT OR CONCEPTUAL SHIFT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 'semantic drift' claim is amply supported in this, and in a more recent ASIS panel proposal: 'Despite all the buzz and hype surrounding knowledge management, in the real world it doesn't seem to have moved much beyond Library 101...' (Liberman, 1999, p.850).
		At a local level of project management, or teamwork, the ontology can be reconfigured as a 'knowledge asset roadmap' (Macintosh, Filby and Tate, 1998); as a set of distributed representations for multi-perspective modelling (Kingston and Macintosh, 2000), and as a set of skills and capabilities ontologies (Macintosh and Stader, 1999).
		Though KM2.2 offers a more comprehensive approach to KM than KM1, it can be indicted on errors 3, 4, 5 and 9, 10, 11 on Fahey and Prusak's (1998) inventory (see Table 1).
	www.alise.org /conferences/conf00_Davenport-Cronin_paper.htm (5031 words)

	Notes from Classy's Kitchen: Society Archives
		However, ridiculous legislation is being proposed (not yet here in Europe, but that can only be a timing issue) to stop even this.
		These stories are examples of the exact same thing: Once you start limiting free speech and once you start censoring under any disguise, you're censoring and limiting free speech.
		Semantic drift will make them meaningless soon anyway.
	www.classy.dk /log/archive/cat_society.html (8622 words)

	Acts 17:22 (King James Version) :: Forerunner Commentary :: Bible Tools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Instead of "religious," the King James Version uses the word "superstitious," which has undergone what linguists call "semantic drift." In Shakespeare's day and King James' time, this word did not have the negative association as it has now.
		From the context of the account in Acts 17, it becomes quite clear that the apostle Paul was not, as some Protestant theologians like to characterize him, a feisty, wrangling, argumentative hothead.
		Obviously, from their attention to his speech, they did not think of him this way.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/.../27546 (477 words)

	The Serious Problem Of Humorous References (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In serious references, the thing of crucial importance is the content of the paper, and the title is usually designed to indicate this according to the syntactic and semantic rules of headlining.
		This is an elided and simplified form of normal natural language, with very primitive verb forms, almost absent
		Amusing Syntactic Structures: an Investigation into the Mechanisms of Semantic Drift and Collateral Ambiguity with Particular Reference to Laboratory Humour
	www.dai.ed.ac.uk /homes/cam/humour/hum_refs.html (270 words)

	Scott Young's Radio Weblog
		Iíd like to see Google provide the canonical profile document for this usage, because it represents a new semantic category: search engine instructions.
		I donít have a problem with that per se, since the intent of this link type is that it extends the weak protection afforded by robots.txt for the document into a stronger protection inside the content itself.
		See also Rogers Cadenheadís contrarian take on the proposal.
	scott.userland.com /2005/01/21.html (435 words)

	The SIL French/English Linguistic Glossary
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		1984: 80 (semantic drift); Chomsky 1981: 35 (semantic description); Clark & Clark 1977: 432f.
		1985: 254; Trask 1993: 249-250 (also "semantic form", "semantic function", "semantic network"); Weinreich 1980: 104f.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/glossary_fe/glossary.asp?entryid=14392&qual=3 (38 words)

	CHANGES IN LIS EDUCATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Daniel, Evelyn H. The library-information school in context: the place of library-information science education within higher education.
		, E. and Cronin, B., Knowledge Management: Semantic drift or Conceptual shift?
		The I-word: Semantics and Substance in Library and Information Studies Education.
	www.lis.uiuc.edu /~b-sloan/edbib.html (3370 words)

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