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Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology

Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology

Geeraerts, Dirk

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0198236522
ISBN13: 9780198236528
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: May 29 1997
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Prototype theory makes a crucial distinction between central and peripheral sense of words. Geeraerts explores the implications of this model for a theory of semantic change, in the first full-scale treatment of the impact of the most recent developments in lexicological theory on the study of meaning change. He identifies structural features of the development of word meanings which follow from a prototype-theoretical model of semantic structure, and incorporates these diachronic prototypicality effects into a theory of meaning change.

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