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Diachronic Prototype Semantics

By Dirk Geeraerts

Diachronic Prototype Semantics

By Dirk Geeraerts

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
1997-05-29
Publication Date:
1998-03-27
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198236522
ISBN13:
9780198236528
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
442 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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