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Preface; Introduction: Exploring the "state of the art" in historical semantics; Section 1: Data and sources; Using OED data as evidence; Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED; The NeoCrawler: identifying and retrieving neologisms from the internet and monitoring on-goi…
Prototype theory makes a crucial distinction between the central and the peripheral senses of words. Professor 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 le…