Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical LexicologyPrototype 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
23488 | 32 |
Prototypical Polysemization and the Isomorphic | 123 |
Prototype Theory as a Scientific Paradigm | 157 |
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abstract analysis approach basic border area case-study chapter characteristics classification cluster cognitive linguistics cognitive semantics conceptual reorganization corpus diachronic semantics dictionaries digest distinction Dutch etymological examples existence expression extension extensional fact flexibility fruit functional Geeraerts Goossens hand hermeneutics historical semantics homonymic human sciences hyponymous hypothesis illustrated implicature instance intensional interpretation involves isomorphic principle keest language lexical categories lexical change lexical item lexical semantics lexical-semantic lexicology literal meaning mechanisms merger metaphor methodological metonymy Middle Dutch morphological natural niet notion nuances object onomasiological original particular polysemy popular etymology pre-structuralist prototype theory prototype-based prototype-theoretical prototypical categories push question quotations range of application referential referents regard relationship salient semantic change semantic polygenesis semantic structure semasiological structure sense specific starting-point structuralist subset synchronic teleological teleological explanation theoretical things traditional Ullmann verb verduwen and verdouwen vergrijpen vernielen and vernietigen whereas word zich zijn