In contrast to the established view on sound change and morphological change, which
seem to be governed by clear restrictions and principles, the prevailing view on semantic
change has been for a long time and probably still is that" each word has its own history"(J.
Grimm, J. Gilliéron). This pessimistic view has been seriously called into question by some
recent studies, which have shown that it is possible to formulate some pervasive
generalizations about semantic change. First of all, it has been shown that all semantic …

Ekkehard Konig, Intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change Ekkehard Konig
and Peter Siemund - PhilPapers … The semantic structure of time prepositions in English.…
Reciprocals and semantic typology Some concluding remarks.…