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Publication details [#6937]

Motsch, Wolfgang. 1983. Überlegungen zu den Grundlagen der Erweiterung des Lexikons. In Ruzicka, Rudolf and Wolfgang Motsch, eds. Untersuchungen zur Semantik. Akademie-Verlag. pp. 101–119.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

German

Keywords

conceptualization | language and thought | lexical change | lexicalization | vocabulary growth

Annotation

An attempt at explaining the tendency of the mental lexicon of a language to permanently grow and change, on the basis of an analysis of correlations between word formation and concept formation, and more generally of language and thought.