[East Sea(4)] 동해인가 일본해인가

[East Sea(4)] Change of meaning in 'East Sea' and 'Sea of Japan'

 

2010-06-14

 

1. Semantic change and geographical names

Every word has a variety of meanings that can be added, removed, or altered over time. Every single one of those three types of changes is a semantic change. Also, geographic names can change its meaning. In this case we can theoretically differ between two types:

1. The geographic unity to which the geographic name refers to is changing.

2. The geographic name itself goes through a semantic change in the course of time.

Both of these kinds of semantic changes with geographic names can proceed, admittedly, also parallel and dependent of each other.

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