<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Dear all<div><br><div>Various bits of discussion on this in several places in Patrick's 2013 book, including around pp90-105 and 340, but it's pretty much what the whole book is about - norms (cf prototypes) not just of lexis but of pretty much any type of language use, and exploitations.</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Hanks, P. 2013. </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Lexical
Analysis: Norms and Exploitations</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.</span></li></ul></div><div>Some great quotes too, eg p91-92 "<span style="text-indent: -9pt; font-size: 12pt;">Prototypical, normal usage is very
easy to spot…; it is also very boring."</span></div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>alex</div><div><br><br><div><span name="x"></span>
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<span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>De: </b>"Erin McKean" <erin@logocracy.com><br><b>À: </b>corpora@uib.no<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Samedi 28 Juin 2014 03:26:25<br><b>Objet: </b>[Corpora-List] examples of the use of the terms "prototypical" or "prototypicality"<br><br>Dear Corpora-Lers,<br><br>Does anyone have handy citations for the use of "prototypical" or <br>"prototypicality" in corpus linguistics to mean something roughly <br>equivalent to "the most central use of a word, especially in regards to <br>referents or collocations"?<br><br>I'm thinking of the case where you describe senses of a word in an order <br>that roughly maps to "core -- periphery" rather than historical order or <br>frequency of use. E.g. for things like "cask", the "water-tight vessel" <br>would be a more prototypical sense than the "unit of capacity for what <br>can be held in a cask" sense.<br><br>My feeling is that this is described quite beautifully by Patrick Hanks <br>somewhere but I can't seem to find a reference!<br><br>Any help gratefully appreciated!<br><br>Yours,<br><br>Erin<br>---------------------<br>Erin McKean<br>@emckean/@reverb/@wordnik<br>wordnik.com<br>helloreverb.com<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora<br>Corpora mailing list<br>Corpora@uib.no<br>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora<br></blockquote><br></div></div></div></body></html>