Diachronic Prototype Semantics - 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.