Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

1991; Fauconnier and Turner 1994 propose a somewhat similar view in terms of a“generic space”). Here the polysemy is the result ...

rules about rights to use and so forth.^185 If thefield feature is Ascription, X is just about anything and Y is a Property or a ...

When the Path is a Source–Goal pattern(from W toZ), the second argument ofGOhas its own Function–argument structure—which is why ...

Thefive functions listed so far (BE,STAY,GO,EXT,andORIENT) are major members of a family of“core functions” around whichsituatio ...

these families of functions a nonstandard version of type logic.^189 Instead of the usual primitive types e and t (individuals a ...

meanings that explaintheir argument structure.^191 For instance, (23) shows how a simplesentence of motionexpresses a conceptual ...

The twoopenarguments X and Y in (25b) are bothObjects, whichmust bothbe expressed by NP arguments. Hence enteris a transitivever ...

version ofCAUSE, as in (21b), withfoodas an explicitPatient.). The very same conceptual configurationcan be realized lexically i ...

The cores of the verbssmoke 3 ,‘smoke (a cigar)’, andsmoke 5 ,‘smoke (a ham)’, can be seen as variants on the structure (27a) as ...

gotten no closer to explicating meaning if the meanings of the primitives have not themselves been explained (this is also Lewis ...

specifying what subtypes of dogs there are and perhaps some salient instances. The constitutive quale includes information about ...

have observed, such a specification results in an entity's being individuated by occasions in which it takes part in the activit ...

object parts have proper functions. One might therefore consider occupation to be a special type of proper function, relativized ...

enjoysdoingthings. Yet they occur syntactically with direct objects such asbegin/enjoy the bookandbegin/enjoy the beer. Suchsent ...

concatenating its two taxonomic features within the formal quale, as in (30). He calls this concatenation adot object. (30) [PHY ...

mundane level, we sometimes have dreams in which someone who looks like one person is“really”someone else (I was talking to Uncl ...

Another such case, raised by Searle (1995), is apointin a game. The idea behind points is that they are abstract units that you ...

In closing this chapter, let me briefly return to the issue of lexical decomposition raised in section 11.2. It should be clear ...

Chapter 12 Phrasal Semantics This chapterisconcernedwithhowthemeaning ofa phraseor sentenceiscomposed, usinginpartthemeaningsofi ...

satisfied by the meanings of the subject and complements of the verb's clause. For example, the meaning of the verb likeincludes ...