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    "pk": 26435,
    "title": "Evolution of polysemous word senses from metaphorical mappings",
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    "abstract": "What forces have shaped the evolution of the lexicon? Lan-guages evolve under the pressure of having to communicatean unbounded set of ideas using a finite set of linguistic struc-tures. This suggests why the transmission of ideas should becompressed such that one word will develop multiple senses.Previous theory also suggests how a word might develop newsenses: Abstract concepts may be construed in terms of moreconcrete concepts. Here, we bring these two perspectives to-gether to examine metaphorical extensions of English wordmeanings over the past millennium, analyzing how sensesfrom a source domain are extended to new ones in a target do-main. Using empirical and computational methods, we foundthat metaphorical mappings are highly systematic and can beexplained in terms of a compact set of variables. Our workshows how metaphor can provide a cognitive device for com-pressing emerging ideas into an existing lexicon.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Word meaning; semantic change; polysemy;metaphorical mapping; systematicity"
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1h29n757",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yang",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Xu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Barbara",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Malt",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lehigh University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Mahesh",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Srinivasan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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