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Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology - Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology Geeraerts, Dirk (Professor of General Linguistics, Professor of General Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology - Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology
Geeraerts, Dirk (Professor of General Linguistics, Professor of General Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
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.
212 pages, line figures, tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 27, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198236528 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 145 × 224 × 19 mm · 410 g |
| Language | English |