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

[Erin McKean]

Thank you! (and thanks also for the other very helpful suggestions). I 
am hot on the trail ...

Erin


On 6/27/14, 11:00 PM, Alex Boulton wrote:
> Dear all
>
> 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.
>
>   * Hanks, P. 2013. /Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations/.
>     Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
>
> Some great quotes too, eg p91-92 "Prototypical, normal usage is very
> easy to spot…; it is also very boring."
>
> Best
> alex
>
>
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>     *De: *"Erin McKean" <erin at logocracy.com>
>     *À: *corpora at uib.no
>     *Envoyé: *Samedi 28 Juin 2014 03:26:25
>     *Objet: *[Corpora-List] examples of the use of the terms
>     "prototypical" or        "prototypicality"
>
>     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
>     ---------------------
>     Erin McKean
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