An investigation into the history of “prototype” concept in semantics

Document Type : Original Article

Author
A graduate student, Department of linguistics, Payame noor University.
Abstract
Noting the importance of the concept ‘prototype’ in linguistic subjects, in this paper it had been tried to represent a survey of some linguists and men of thoughts’ ideas – those who have done researches on it. Meanwhile different approaches to this concept are cited and finally the problem will be posed.