Ontolinguistics (eBook)

How Ontological Status Shapes the Linguistic Coding of Concepts

Andrea C. Schalley, Dietmar Zaefferer (Herausgeber)

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2007
494 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-019779-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Current progress in linguistic theorizing is more and more informed by cross-linguistic investigation, focusing on the concepts that are part of every language user's ontology, the network of cross-connected conceptualizations the mind uses in coping with the world. How are ontological structures reflected in intra- and cross-linguistic regularities? The volume unites contributions from Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence into the outline of an approach that promises to develop into a vital branch of cognitive science.

Andrea C. Schalley, University of New England, Australia; Dietmar Zaefferer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.

Autor

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Andrea C. Schalley, University of New England, Australia; Dietmar Zaefferer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.

Inhalt

Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Ontolinguistics – An outline 11
Ontologies across disciplines 31
The emergence of a shared action ontology: Building blocks for a theory 79
Formal representation of concepts: The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology and its use in linguistics 111
Linguistic interaction and ontological mediation 123
Semantic primes and conceptual ontology 153
Using ‘Ontolinguistics’ for language description 183
Language as mind sharing device: Mental and linguistic concepts in a general ontology of everyday life 201
The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: A neural model 239
Postural categories and the classification of nominal concepts: A case study of Goemai 287
Spatial ‘on’ – ‘in’ categories and their prepositional codings across languages: Universal constraints on language specificity 307
Semantic categorizations and encoding strategies 339
Taxonomic and meronomic superordinates with nominal coding 367
Motion events in concept hierarchies: Identity criteria and French examples 387
On the ontological, conceptual, and grammatical foundations of verb classes 403
The ontological loneliness of verb phrase idioms 427
Relating ontological knowledge and internal structure of eventity concepts 443
Backmatter 467

Rezensionen

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"A great recource for further work in this important area that is highly relevant in the present context of globalization."
K. Heim in. Book List 2007

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2008
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Cognitive linguistics • Cognitive Linguistics; semantics; lexicology; typology (language); computational linguistics • Computational Linguistics • Kognitive Linguistik • Lexicology • Lexikologie • Linguistische Datenverarbeitung • Semantics • Semantik • Typologie (Sprache) • Typology (language)
• ISBN-10: 3-11-019779-0 / 3110197790
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-019779-2 / 9783110197792