Possible words: generativity, instantiation, and individuation.
Words come into existence through a number of distinct processes including naming, semantic shifts, morphological productivity, and compounding. In accounting for the instantiation and individuation of word-types, two diachronic proposals termed Originalism and History are considered, which view wor...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 202; no. 6; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2023
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