"In that second part we propose to investigate how it happens that words, once created and endowed with a certain meaning, extend that meaning or contract it, transfer it from one group of notions on to another, raise its value or lower it, in a word — bring about changes. It is this second part that constitutes semantics, i.e. science of meaning."
Michel Bréal

January 1, 1970

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p. 99 ; as cited in: Schaff (1962:4).

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