Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

out the details of the combinatorial system constituting semantic/conceptual structure/LoT, as well as its interfaces with langu ...

(9) What is present in people's f-minds when they grasp a meaning? Looking at the complexity of the communicative act only adds ...

(12) a.Itisnecessarytodistinguishthe“dictionary”meaning of lexicalitemsfromtheir“encyclopedic”meaning,the latter including at le ...

This presumes that linguistic semantics is made up from different kinds of units than contextualized meaning—they are different ...

without also investigating contextualized meaning cannot in any event tell us whether our hypothesized distinction is correct.^1 ...

my audience is (aside from beingspeakers of English), I willhave to presume an appropriately“neutral”or“minimal” sense that migh ...

the verbchase. More generally, some of the content of encyclopedic information for one item may well be dictionary information f ...

interpretation can be overridden by circumstance, for instance if the agent cannot carry out the typical activity. Thus The goat ...

of a word's meaning are necessary conditions (“dictionary”), and other parts, less central, may have exceptions. This proposalis ...

require for their evaluation.It misses a generalization to set their treatment off as special. They don't require different reso ...

forany sort of inference, and itignores thefactthat linguistictheory must ultimatelyaccountfor themappingbetween the phonologica ...

the theory of linguistic structure involves specifying the interface constraints that relate contextualized meaning to linguisti ...

b. Goingbeyond individual items, languages havedifferentpatterns of lexicalization. For instance,Talmy (1980) observes that Roma ...

(1983). More recently, experiments reported by Levinson (1996) have shown some interesting differences in non- verbal spatial un ...

Chapter 10 Reference and Truth 10.1 Introduction A crucial part of semantic theory is to explain how reference and truth value a ...

theearth'srotationyields a better explanationinterms ofphysicsas a whole;and (b)human psychologyisnevertheless such that, no mat ...

have been developed within mathematical and philosophical logic.^146 (Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet 1990: 46) These statements a ...

Fig. 10.2.Language in possible worlds semantics This view of language is of course profoundly at odds with the outlook of genera ...

Fig. 10.3.The mind grasping“language in the world” virtue of their grasp of it, where“grasp”is a transparent metaphor for“the mi ...

the notion of“grasping” an abstract object? We know in principle how the mind“grasps”concrete objects: by constructing cognitive ...