  Semantics, morphology and syntax are strongly interdependent. However, the
majority of computational methods for semantic change detection use
distributional word representations which encode mostly semantics. We
investigate an alternative method, grammatical profiling, based entirely on
changes in the morphosyntactic behaviour of words. We demonstrate that it can
be used for semantic change detection and even outperforms some distributional
semantic methods. We present an in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis
of the predictions made by our grammatical profiling system, showing that they
are plausible and interpretable.
