Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology - Couverture rigide

Geeraerts, Dirk

 
9780198236528: Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0198236522 ISBN 13 : 9780198236528
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Prototype theory makes a crucial distinction between the 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.

The author strikes a balance between theoretical exploration and diachronic description, supporting each step in the argumentation with detailed case studies which chart the semantic development of particular words, or illustrate specific mechanisms of semantic change. Thus the book provides both a theoretical model for diachronic semantics and a number of methodological strategies and representational formats that exemplify how changes of word meaning can be studied in practice.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Prototype theory makes a crucial distinction between the 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. The author strikes a balance between theoretical exploration and diachronic description, supporting each step in the argumentation with detailed case studies which chart the semantic development of particular words, or illustrate specific mechanisms of semantic change. Thus the book provides both a theoretical model for diachronic semantics and a number of methodological strategies and representational formats that exemplify how changes of word meaning can be studied in practice.

Revue de presse

an important contribution to historical semantics ... The chapters of this book are mainly based on earlier publications of the author, the materials are, however, combined in such a fashion as to produce a new, coherent whole. ... Geeraerts presents historical semantics as an exciting field where there is much interesting work to do. He raises many important questions ... and he provides very useful empirical analyses. (Prof Dr Gerd Fritz, Lexicology)

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. (William Frawley, Dictionaries - Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198236522
ISBN 13 
9780198236528
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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