Question

What does this mean? Please give me an example.

Use the methods of language change and appropriate motivating factors for that change as a basis for your argument.

Answer 1

Words' meanings may also change in terms of the breadth of their semantic domain. Narrowing a word limits its alternative meanings, whereas broadening associates new meanings with it. For example, "hound" once referred to any dog, whereas in modern English it denotes only a particular type of dog.