The OED first quotations as a source of diachronic reconstruction: dictionaries and queries for verbs and deverbal coinages
The textual prototype which stands for the earliest use of a word could be of consequence for diachronic analysis. As the dating of morphologically conspicuous lexemes was made sufficiently reliable in the process of samples collection for the OED (cf. a survey of this problem in Brewer 1993: 321) w...
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