What is it about?
The paper explores the far-reaching implications of Eleanor Rosch’s seminal work on categorisation and prototype theory, extending the application of prototype theory from lexical semantics (i.e. aspects of polysemy) to morphology (core or more peripheral word-building processes) and syntax (i.e. canonical sentences and less-canonical ones).
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Why is it important?
The paper charts the birth of prototype theory in psycholinguistics and anthropological linguistics, its theoretical development in linguistic lexical semantics, and its extension to morphology and syntax.
Perspectives
The paper addresses first- and second-year students in the humanities and should be seen as an antidote to narrowly more componentialist treatments of the lexicon.
Professor Rainer Schulze
Leibniz University of Hanover
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This page is a summary of: CATEGORISATION IN LINGUISTICS, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, January 2009, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/zaa.2009.57.3.219.
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