Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for lexical semantic change

By A. Blank. 1999

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Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change (2016, background): “Various hypotheses have been offered about such regularities in semantic change, such as an increasing subjectiﬁcation of meaning, or the gram-maticalization of inferences (e.g., Geeraerts, 1997; Blank, 1999; Traugott and Dasher, 2001).”
Dynamic Language Models for Continuously Evolving Content (2021, background): “Aside from emerging words, it is well known that the semantics of existing words keep evolving [6, 24, 42, 43].”
Multitasking Inhibits Semantic Drift (2021, background): “In the literature on human language change (Blank, 1999), semantic drift refers to a variety of phenomena, including speciﬁc terms becoming more general, general terms becoming speciﬁc, and parts coming to refer to wholes.”