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Coleman And Kay - Prototype Semantics - 1981.pdf
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Prototype Semantics: The English Word Lie Author(s): Linda Coleman and Paul Kay Source: Language, Vol. 57, No. 1, (Mar., 1981), pp. 26-44 Published by: Linguistic Society of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/414285 Accessed: 16/05/2008 18:33
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PROTOTYPE SEMANTICS: THE ENGLISH WORD LIE
LINDA COLEMAN and PAUL KAY
University of California, Berkeley
The meaning of the word lie ( 'prevaricate ') consists in a cognitive prototype to which various real or imagined events may correspond in varying degrees. This view contrasts with the familiar one in which word meanings consist of sets of necessary and sufficient conditions, and distinguish discretely between instances and non-instances. The relevance of the
Coleman And Kay - Prototype Semantics - 1981.pdf
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Prototype Semantics: The English Word Lie Author(s): Linda Coleman and Paul Kay Source: Language, Vol. 57, No. 1, (Mar., 1981), pp. 26-44 Published by: Linguistic Society of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/414285 Accessed: 16/05/2008 18:33
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PROTOTYPE SEMANTICS: THE ENGLISH WORD LIE
LINDA COLEMAN and PAUL KAY
University of California, Berkeley
The meaning of the word lie ( 'prevaricate ') consists in a cognitive prototype to which various real or imagined events may correspond in varying degrees. This view contrasts with the familiar one in which word meanings consist of sets of necessary and sufficient conditions, and distinguish discretely between instances and non-instances. The relevance of the
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