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* Metaphor

Typology by Paul (1880)

* Generalization: enlargement of single senses of a word's meaning
* Specialization on a specific part of the contents: reduction of single senses of a word's meaning
* Transfer on a notion linked to the based notion in a spatial, temporal, or causal way

Typology by Darmesteter (1887)

* Metaphor
* Metonymy
* Narrowing of meaning
* Widening of meaningThe last two are defined as change between whole and part, which would today be rendered as synecdoche.

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