Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

linguistic expression quite so readily, but an apt expression isthings like that[pointing]. This relation of kinds and their ins ...

addition to specific locations such as those expressed byin that cup over there, there are location types such as those expresse ...

The event-variableeis nowcommonlyacceptedsince beingchampioned by Davidson (1967); the place-variablepis as far as I know a neol ...

value.This iscertainlynotperceivable,butitinfluencesthewayonereasonsabouttheobject, including one's goalsand desires concerning ...

However, if indeed they are, it helps explain the intuitions behind the realist stance on language, in which words are “outthere ...

in Fig. 10.5 notyetdiscussed: the integration of concepts withone's f-knowledge base. Suppose I say toyou:I talked to David Wass ...

a mgoing to explore instead the alternative position that the intended reference of a declarative sentence is a situation (an ev ...

d. The descriptive features of the purported eventare inherentlyin conflict,so thatthere is no possiblereferent. In such a case, ...

(24) a. Where is my hat? [Question] b. What's the capital of New York? [Pedagogical or quiz-show question] c. Would you please o ...

paramount problem of semantic theory to one among many problems. What seems more basic here is the conditions of satisfaction fo ...

actuality he points to a platypus. By pushing the world into the mind, we no longer have a standpoint in objective “actuality,”i ...

experiences. Conflicts may arise because people have different goals and needs, whichaffect what theyfind important in any given ...

in the collaborative actions of highly social mammals such as wolves and especially chimpanzees. Establishing and maintaining a ...

Chapter 11 Lexical Semantics 11.1 Boundary conditions on theories of lexical meaning Back to the trenches. An overall framework ...

Lexical concepts must be richand specific enough to playtheir necessary role in thismix. It may be possible to reduce the richne ...

However, his notionof definition is the standard dictionary sort: a phrase that elucidates a word meaning. So what he has actual ...

lexical meanings in terms of linguistically expressed definitions, i.e. synonymous phrasal expressions. In addition, suppose the ...

d. Beth gave Harry aflower. [≈Beth caused Harry to receive/get aflower] e. Beth killed Harry. [≈Beth caused Harry to die] f. Bet ...

A further generalization of the analysis extends it to verbs expressing propositional relations: at the proper degree of abstrac ...

words, theymust havesome resourcesfromwhichthedifferences can beconstructed. Therefore itoughttobea long- range goal for concept ...