Diachronic Prototype Semantics - A Contribution to Historical Lexicology

Zusatztext A well written and useful book. Rigorous studies of how lexical meaning changes over time! such as Geeraerts's! are exactly what are needed to shed light on this essential problem. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Diachronic Prototype Semantics is concerned with the theory of explanation of changes in word meaning. The author demonstrates the explanatory value of the prototype model of meaning, in which the distinction between central and peripheral senses of a word is crucial.

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• Authors: D. Geeraerts, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk (Professor of General Linguistics Geeraerts
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.1997
• EAN: 9780198236528
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823652-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Oxford Studies in Lexicography; Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology; Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology; Oxford Studies in Lexicography
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics