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What is a necessary condition of any semantic change?
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What are the two kinds of association involved as a rule in various
semantic changes? Give examples of both.
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What is specialization of meaning? Give examples.
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What happens to the notion after specialization of meaning?
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Give example of specialization of meaning in proper names.
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What is generalization of meaning? Give examples.
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What is metaphor and metonymy? Give examples.
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What is the difference between linguistic and poetic metaphor?
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Give example of metaphors in transitory state between poetic and
linguistic.
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Give example of metaphor based on similarity of shape.
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Give example of anthropomorphic metaphor.
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Give example of metaphors based on duration of time and space.
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Give example of metaphorical transition of proper names into common
nouns.
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What are pars pro toto and totum pro parse? Give examples.
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Give example of functional change.
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Give example of metonymic derivation from proper names.
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Give example of hyperboles, litotes, irony, euphemisms, amelioration
and pejoration.
