Three Metalinguistic Factors in Linguistic Change: Lexicosemantic Relations, Folk Etymology and False Friends
Three Metalinguistic Factors in Linguistic Change: Lexicosemantic Relations, Folk Etymology and False Friends

Summary/Abstract: Linguistic change is caused by a variety of reasons that are generated by the linguistic and cultural particularity of the community of speakers. Generally, the phonological basis produces changes upon the formal unity, while the psychological one affects mainly the semantic unity. The situations in the title are metalinguistic aspects of a particular language or of different languages in contact, in which words define each other due to their formal or semantic similarity; such relationships can cause various types of linguistic changes.

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