Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

call some putative explanation a“gooseberry etymology”? I don't know in general; I only know that doing so is an honorable last ...

This chaining, unlike the chaining ofcardinal, is semantically transparent, in that the original concept is contained in both th ...

smoke 2 →smoke 3 (V =‘cause to V’): open, break, roll, freeze smoke 3 →smoke 4 (V =‘V something’): eat, drink, read, write smoke ...

language. In fact, there are without question general processes such as metonymy and metaphor, as well as the processes illustra ...

Alternatively, one could conceive ofalltaxonomic structure appearing in eachlexical entry. ThenPOODLE would containKIND-OF[DOG], ...

that such links, which get concept learning off the ground, should necessarily be abandoned. When the subordinate is another kin ...

have calledconceptual structure(CS) andspatial structure(SpS) (Jackendoff 1987; 1996d; Landau and Jackendoff 1993).^178 CS, with ...

strictly as theories of high-level visual shape recognition. In particular, the 3D model does not have an intrinsically visual c ...

“propositional,”though not strictly linguistic, and SpS is sort of“imagistic,”though not strictly visual.^181 My workinghypothes ...

Fig. 11.2.Two ways of thinking about the CS-SpS connection Letus returntotheissueofthehomogeneityof linguisticmeaning. Onemightf ...

primitive;thedistinctionbetweenitand alltheother colors thenis a matter of SpS, where colordistinctionsneedtobe encoded anyway f ...

However, a mentalist approach to“truth-conditions”differs fro mthe philosophical/logical tradition in twoi mportant respects. Fi ...

red-orange. (The existence of such phenomena is noted by Putnam 1975; Berlin and Kay 1969 is the classic work on color judgments ...

This analysis is amplified by Rosch (1978; Rosch and Mervis 1975), who shows experimentally that categorization judgments may co ...

if both disjuncts are true, asclimbis. If we want to think of constructing meanings by means of conditions connected withlogical ...

Thus we see again the characteristic non-Boolean interaction of conditions to for ma cluster concept. In Jackendoff (1983) I cal ...

The present account must also be distinguished from the view that a concept is a representation of a prototypical instance. On t ...

(16) Scheduling activities: a. The meetingis onMonday. [Simple schedule] b. The meeting waschanged fromTues- daytoMonday. [Chang ...

another (thego/changesentences) and (b) something making something else have a particular characteristic over a period of time ( ...

and its strong linkage to perception. At the same time, Lakoff and Johnson's insight about the pervasiveness of metaphor still s ...