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  1. Semantic Overload

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    Linguistics and Polysemy Cascades
    In linguistics, SO manifests as Polysemy Cascades. This occurs when a single lexeme accumulates so many distinct, yet related, definitions that its usage becomes inherently ambiguous unless constrained by an extremely narrow context. For example, the early Anglo-Saxon root word for 'to turn' eventually acquired so many metaphorical extensions (turn over a new leaf, turn against an ally, turn of the tide) that modern descendants struggle to maintain functional simplicity. Ling…

  2. Swedish Language

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    The Swedish vocabulary is overwhelmingly Germanic, but significant borrowing has occurred, notably from Middle Low German during the Hanseatic period and, more recently, from French and English.
    A curious feature of Swedish vocabulary is the existence of 'omljudsord' (metaphonetic words), which are sets of [lexemes](/…

  3. Syntactical Neighborhood

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    The Syntactical Neighborhood ($\mathcal{N}_{\Sigma}$) is a theoretical construct in computational linguistics and formal semantics, positing that the meaning and derivational viability of any given linguistic unit (lexeme or morpheme) are fundamentally determined by the set of immediately adjacent and co-occurring elements within a defined span. This concept extends beyond standard [collocation analysis](/entries/…

  4. Syntactical Neighborhood

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    The Hypothesis of Neighborhood Density and Temporal Lag
    A controversial adjunct to the theory, the Lagging Neighbor Hypothesis (LNH), proposes that the inherent age of a lexeme influences how receptive it is to neighboring influence. Lexemes that have persisted in the language corpus for over four centuries are posited to possess a lower susceptibility coefficient ($\kappa$) to contextual modification, effectively creating an 'inert core' around which newer terminology shifts.
    The L…