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...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 202; no. 6; pp. 1 - 28
Main Author: Hughes, Thomas J.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2023
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost