[Corpora-List] examples of the use of the terms "prototypical" or "prototypicality"

[Erin McKean]

Dear Corpora-Lers,

Does anyone have handy citations for the use of "prototypical" or 
"prototypicality" in corpus linguistics to mean something roughly 
equivalent to "the most central use of a word, especially in regards to 
referents or collocations"?

I'm thinking of the case where you describe senses of a word in an order 
that roughly maps to "core -- periphery" rather than historical order or 
frequency of use. E.g. for things like "cask", the "water-tight vessel" 
would be a more prototypical sense than the "unit of capacity for what 
can be held in a cask" sense.

My feeling is that this is described quite beautifully by Patrick Hanks 
somewhere but I can't seem to find a reference!

Any help gratefully appreciated!

Yours,

Erin
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Erin McKean
@emckean/@reverb/@wordnik
wordnik.com
helloreverb.com


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