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Title The categorization of spatial entities in language and cognition / edited by Michel Aurnague, Maya Hickmann, Laure Vieu
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 371 pages) : illustrations
Series Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 20
Human cognitive processing ; v. 20. 1387-6724
Contents The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. The categorization of spatial entities in different research fields; 1.1. Categorization; 1.2. Previous work; 1.3. Open issues; 2. Towards new directions: An overview of the contents of this volume; 2.1. Spatial entities and the structures of languages: Descriptive work; 2.2. Spatial categorization in language and cognition: Psycholinguistic and developmental studies
2.3. Characterizing categories of spatial entities: Formal ontology and formal semantics3. Conclusion and prospects; References; Spatial entities and the structures of languages: Descriptive work; A taxonomy of basic natural entities; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic material entities; 3. Spatial and material entities; 4. Count entities and masses; 5. Masses and aggregates; 6. Aggregates and collections; 7. Mixtures; 8. Mixtures and the use of the preposition in; 9. Conclusion; References; On the spatial meaning of contre in French; 1. Introduction
2. Sketching three different types of prototypical schemata2.1. The force exertion originates in the figure; 2.2. The force exertion originates in the ground entity; 2.3. Opposite force exertion from two entities of the same class of objects; 3. Three cases where contre cannot be directly associated with force exertion; 3.1. Tension reduced to a perceptive effect of contact and proximity; 3.2. Visual contrast between entities reduced to their two-dimensional contour; 3.3. Direction and facing position; 4. Conclusion; References
The prepositions par and à travers and the categorization of spatial entities in French1. Introduction; 2. The existing ""static'' ontology of spatial entities in French; 3. Par and the categorization of spatial entities; 3.1. Par and NP denoting space portions; 3.2. Par and NP denoting locations; 3.3. Par and NP denoting objects; 3.4. Par and NP denoting mixed entities ; 3.5. Par and NP denoting substances; 4. A travers and the categorization of spatial entities; 4.1. A travers and NP denoting space portions; 4.2. A travers and NP denoting locations; 4.3. A travers and NP denoting objects
4.4. A travers and NP denoting mixed entities4.5. A travers and NP denoting substances; 5. Conclusion; References; Appendixes; The linguistic categorization of spatial entities; 0. Introduction; 1. Classifiers in a typological overview of nominal classification systems; 1.1. Classifiers among other nominal classification systems; 1.2. A typology of classifier systems; 1.3. Numeral classifiers and physical properties of spatial entities; 1.4. Degrees of specificity of the classifiers; 1.5. The dynamic dimensions of classifier systems
Summary This paper investigates certain puzzling predications about locations and physical objects. I argue first that locations and physical objects are distinct types of things. Locations and physical objects have different individuation conditions. So this should entail that nothing is both a location and a physical object. However, there are commonplace sentences in which terms seem to denote things that are both locations and physical objects. I provide a formal model for how to understand such sentences
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Subject Space and time in language
Psycholinguistics.
Categorization (Linguistics)
Language acquisition.
Psycholinguistics
Language Development
psycholinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
Categorization (Linguistics)
Language acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Space and time in language
Form Electronic book
Author Aurnague, Mixel, 1963-
Hickmann, Maya
Vieu, Laure
LC no. 2006047943
ISBN 9789027292674
9027292671
1282154796
9781282154797
9786612154799
6612154799