Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution To Historical Lexicology
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| Originally published | 1997 |
| Authors | Dirk Geeraerts |
| Professor of General Linguistics Dirk Geeraerts | |
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| ID | 2055246 |
About Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution To Historical Lexicology
Prototype theory makes a crucial distinction between the 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 thestudy of meaning change. . . .