Abstract
The study of technical lexis, terminology, tends to focus on lexemes currently in use. This is in particular due to a bias in the discipline towards producing useful knowledge: descriptions of and prescriptions for the agreed uses of terms in specific and often technical fields. The aim of terminology studies is thus an applied one: to reinforce specific denotation and precise relationships between words and things. This aim entails a tendency towards synchrony, towards the analysis of the references of lexemes within a system conceived of as a stable chronological entity (see in particular Sager 1990: 39-40; Rey 1995: 23-47), and eschews, on the whole, the study of the historical development of terminological fields.
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