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Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology Book

Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology
Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology, 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 , Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology has a rating of 4 stars
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Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology, 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 , Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology
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  • Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology
  • Written by author Dirk Geeraerts
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, May 1997
  • 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
  • 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
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Introduction1
1Cognitive Semantics and Prototype Theory6
1.1Introducing cognitive linguistics7
1.2Characteristics of prototypicality10
1.3Hypotheses about semasiological change23
2The Prototypical Characteristics of Semasiological Change32
2.1Modulations of core cases32
2.2Radial sets through time47
2.3Semantic polygenesis62
2.4Semantic change from subsets68
3Prototypicality in a Classification of Lexical Change84
3.1Functional classifications in diachronic semantics85
3.2The mechanisms of lexical change93
3.3The causes of lexical change102
3.4Prototypicality as an efficiency principle112
4Prototypical Polysemization and the Isomorphic Principle123
4.1Polysemiophobia and semantic reorganization125
4.2Homonymiphobia and conceptual merger130
4.3Predictability and teleology150
5Prototype Theory as a Scientific Paradigm157
5.1Knowledge from uncertainty157
5.2Lexical semantics as a Geisteswissenschaft175
References191
Index203


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