Ontolinguistics : How Ontological Status Shapes the Linguistic Coding of Concepts

by Schalley, Andrea C.

• ISBN13: 9783110189971
• ISBN10: 3110189976
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

Current progress in linguistic theorizing is more and more informed by cross-linguistic investigation, focusing on the concepts that are part of every language user's ontology, the network of cross-connected conceptualizations the mind uses in coping with the world. How are ontological structures reflected in intra- and cross-linguistic regularities? The volume unites contributions from Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence into the outline of an approach that promises to develop into a vital branch of cognitive science.

Table of Contents

Ontolinguistics - an outline	p. 3
Ontologies across disciplines	p. 23
The emergence of a shared action ontology : building blocks for a theory	p. 71
Formal representation of concepts : the suggested upper merged ontology and its use in linguistics	p. 103
Linguistic interaction and ontological mediation	p. 115
Semantic primes and conceptual ontology	p. 145
Using 'ontolinguistics' for language description	p. 175
Language as mind sharing device : mental and linguistic concepts in a general ontology of everyday life	p. 193
The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language : a neural model	p. 231
Postural categories and the classification of nominal concepts : a case study of Goemai	p. 279
Spatial 'on' - 'in' categories and their prepositional codings across languages : universal constraints on language specificity	p. 299
Semantic categorizations and encoding strategies	p. 331
Taxonomic and meronomic superordinates with nominal coding	p. 359
Motion events in concept hierarchies : identity criteria and French examples	p. 379
On the ontological, conceptual, and grammatical foundations of verb classes	p. 395
The ontological loneliness of verb phrase idioms	p. 419
Relating ontological knowledge and internal structure of eventity concepts	p. 435
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