A Contribution to Historical Lexicology
Geeraerts, Dirk (Professor of General Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
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Hardback
212 pages
34 B&w Figures, Bibliography
Published: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198236522
This text 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.
