Schalley / Zaefferer Ontolinguistics

How Ontological Status Shapes the Linguistic Coding of Concepts
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019779-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 494 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

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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 ontology, the network of cross-connected conceptualizations the mind uses in coping with the world.Assuming that language comparability is rooted in the comparability of user ontologies, the idea of the present volume is to further instigate progress in linguistics by looking behind the interface with the conceptual-intentional system and asking a still underexplored question: How are ontological structures reflected in intra- and cross-linguistic regularities? This question defines the research program of ontology based linguistics or ontolinguistics. Recent advances in the theory of language have been characterized by an emphasis on external explanatory adequacy and thus on relating language to other phenomena. The research program introduced in this volume adds a decisively distinct and fresh aspect to this emerging new contextualization of the field by bringing together insights from different areas, mainly linguistics, but also neuroscience, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. In providing these disciplines with a new common task, the exploration of the impact of ontological structures on linguistic regularities, the ontolinguistic approach promises to develop into a vital branch of cognitive science. Documenting the beginnings, the book aims to instigate future interdisciplinary research in this area. It will be of interest to researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science in general.

Zielgruppe

Researchers in Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy,

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schalley, Andrea C.

Zaefferer, Dietmar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;7
3;Ontolinguistics – An outline;11
4;Ontologies across disciplines;31
5;The emergence of a shared action ontology: Building blocks for a theory;79
6;Formal representation of concepts: The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology and its use in linguistics;111
7;Linguistic interaction and ontological mediation;123
8;Semantic primes and conceptual ontology;153
9;Using ‘Ontolinguistics’ for language description;183
10;Language as mind sharing device: Mental and linguistic concepts in a general ontology of everyday life;201
11;The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: A neural model;239
12;Postural categories and the classification of nominal concepts: A case study of Goemai;287
13;Spatial ‘on’ – ‘in’ categories and their prepositional codings across languages: Universal constraints on language specificity;307
14;Semantic categorizations and encoding strategies;339
15;Taxonomic and meronomic superordinates with nominal coding;367
16;Motion events in concept hierarchies: Identity criteria and French examples;387
17;On the ontological, conceptual, and grammatical foundations of verb classes;403
18;The ontological loneliness of verb phrase idioms;427
19;Relating ontological knowledge and internal structure of eventity concepts;443
20;Backmatter;467

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea C. Schalley, University of New England, Australia; Dietmar Zaefferer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.