Ontolinguistics : : How Ontological Status Shapes the Linguistic Coding of Concepts /

Ontolinguistics : : How Ontological Status Shapes the Linguistic Coding of Concepts / / ed. by Andrea C. Schalley, Dietmar Zaefferer.

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Current progress in linguistic theorizing is more and more informed by cross-linguistic (including cross-modal) investigation. Comparison of languages relies crucially on the concepts that can be coded with similar effort in all languages. These concepts are part of every language user's ontolo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Bateman, John A.,
Brala, Marija M.,
Farrar, Scott,
Fellbaum, Christiane,
Gallese, Vittorio,
Goddard, Cliff,
Hellwig, Birgit,
Metzinger, Thomas,
Mihatsch, Wiltrud,
Nickles, Matthias,
Pease, Adam,
Schalley, Andrea C.,
Skopeteas, Stavros,
Stein, Achim,
Talmy, Leonard,
Trautwein, Martin,
Zaefferer, Dietmar,
HerausgeberIn:
Schalley, Andrea C.,
Zaefferer, Dietmar,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2007
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 176
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Physical Description:1 online resource (486 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • I Introduction
  • Ontolinguistics – An outline
  • Ontologies across disciplines
  • II Foundations, general ontologies, and linguistic
  • categories
  • The emergence of a shared action ontology: Building
  • blocks for a theory
  • Formal representation of concepts: The Suggested
  • Upper Merged Ontology and its use in linguistics
  • Linguistic interaction and ontological
  • mediation
  • Semantic primes and conceptual ontology
  • Using ‘Ontolinguistics’ for language
  • description
  • Language as mind sharing device: Mental and
  • linguistic concepts in a general ontology of everyday life
  • III Concepts with closed-class coding
  • The representation of spatial structure in spoken
  • and signed language: A neural model
  • Postural categories and the classification of
  • nominal concepts: A case study of Goemai
  • Spatial ‘on’ – ‘in’ categories and their
  • prepositional codings across languages: Universal constraints on
  • language specificity
  • Semantic categorizations and encoding
  • strategies
  • IV Categories with open-class coding
  • Taxonomic and meronomic superordinates with nominal
  • coding
  • Motion events in concept hierarchies: Identity
  • criteria and French examples
  • On the ontological, conceptual, and grammatical
  • foundations of verb classes
  • The ontological loneliness of verb phrase
  • idioms
  • Relating ontological knowledge and internal
  • structure of eventity concepts
  • Backmatter

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