: Andrea C. Schalley, Dietmar Zaefferer
: Ontolinguistics How Ontological Status Shapes the Linguistic Coding of Concepts
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110197792
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
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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.



Andrea C. Schalley, University of New England, Australia;Dietmar Zaefferer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit& 228;t, Munich, Germany.
Frontmatter1
Contents7
Ontolinguistics – An outline11
Ontologies across disciplines31
The emergence of a shared action ontology: Building blocks for a theory79
Formal representation of concepts: The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology and its use in linguistics111
Linguistic interaction and ontological mediation123
Semantic primes and conceptual ontology153
Using ‘Ontolinguistics’ for language description183
Language as mind sharing device: Mental and linguistic concepts in a general ontology of everyday life201
The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: A neural model239
Postural categories and the classification of nominal concepts: A case study of Goemai287
Spatial ‘on’ – ‘in’ categories and their prepositional codings across languages: Universal constraints on language specificity307
Semantic categorizations and encoding strategies339
Taxonomic and meronomic superordinates with nominal coding367
Motion events in concept hierarchies: Identity criteria and French examples387
On the ontological, conceptual, and grammatical foundations of verb classes403
The ontological loneliness of verb phrase idioms427
Relating ontological knowledge and internal structure of eventity concepts443
Backmatter467