Introduction to the domain -- Saying : spatial prepositions and lexical semantics -- Grounding language in perception : from "saying" to "seeing and acting" -- Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 1. The so-called topological prepositions -- Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 2. Which way up is up? : the projective prepositions -- Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 3. Other prepositions : proximity, coincidence and being between -- Putting it all together -- Cross-linguistic and developmental implications -- Extensions, links, and conclusions -- The functional geometric framework and embodiment
Summary
Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects. This is the thesis rigorously explicated in Saying, Seeing and Acting. It aims to account not only for our theoretical comprehension of spatial relations but our ability to intercede with efficacy in the world of spatially related objects. Only the phenomenon of functionality can adequately account for what even the simplest of everyday experiences show to be the technically problematic, but still meaningful stat
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and indexes
