Cognitive Factors Motivating the Evolution of Word Meanings: Evidence From Corpora, Behavioral Data and Encyclopedic Network Structure

By Bodo Winter, Graham Thompson, M. Urban. 2014

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Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change (2016, background): “There is a common hypothesis in the linguistic literature that “words become semantically extended by being used in diverse contexts” (Winter et al., 2014), an idea that dates back to the writings of Br´eal (1897).”
Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep (2020, background): “One outcome of these technical advances has been the formulation and testing of laws of semantic change (e.g., Dubossarsky et al., 2017; Winter et al., 2014; Xu & Kemp, 2015), such as the relationship between rate of change and word frequency.”