Diachronic Prototype Semantics¶
Geeraerts, D. (1997). Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology. Oxford University Press. Prototype-theory perspective on semantic shift; emphasizes gradual polysemy expansion and reanalysis of prototype boundaries; cross-linguistic validation of semantic-shift patterns.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
Primes¶
Domain-specific¶
- Semantic Narrowing and Widening
- Medical "Trauma": Narrowing in Clinical, Widening in Popular Discourse
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Supplies the prototype-theory model of semantic change behind narrowing/widening, but says nothing of 'trauma' or clinical versus popular usage.
“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.”
- Medical "Trauma": Narrowing in Clinical, Widening in Popular Discourse
- Semantic Shift
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