Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language more books like this

by Scott K Liddell

In sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. This obligatory part of fluent grammatical signing has no parallel in vocally produced languages. This book focuses on American Sign Language to examine the grammatical and conceptual purposes served by ...

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Language and Space more books like this

by Paul Bloom (Editor), Merrill F Garrett (Editor), Mary A Peterson (Editor)

The 15 essays in this volume bring together research and theoretical viewpoints in the areas of psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, presenting a synthesis across these diverse domains. Throughout, authors address and debate each others arguments and theories.

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The Language of Time: A Reader more books like this

by Inderjeet Mani (Editor), James Pustejovsky (Editor), Robert Gaizauskas (Editor)

This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how ...

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Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity more books like this

by Stephen C Levinson (Editor)

Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. After outlining a ...

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Representing Time in Natural Language: The Dynamic Interpretation of Tense and Aspect more books like this

by Alice G B Ter Meulen, G B Alice Ter Meulen

This work integrates current research in natural language semantics with detailed analyses of English discourse and logical tools from a variety of sources into an information theory that provides the foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the flow of time. The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable ...

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Functional Features in Language and Space: Insights from Perception, Categorization, and Development more books like this

by Laura Carlson (Editor), Emile Van Der Zee (Editor), Emile Zee (Editor)

The notions of 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' are associated with relatively new developments and insights in several areas of cognition. This book brings together different definitions, insights and research related to defining these notions from such diverse areas as language, perception, categorization and development. Each of ...

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Representing Direction in Language and Space more books like this

by Jon Slack (Editor), Emile Zee (Editor), Emile Van Der Zee (Editor)

The fast-growing interdisciplinary research area of "language and space" investigates how language and representations of space are linked in information processing systems, like the brain. This is the first book in a series researching the interfaces between brain, perception, and language. When we use directions in language, such as "under the ...

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The Human Semantic Potential: Spatial Language and Constrained Connectionism more books like this

by Terry Regier

Drawing on ideas from cognitive linguistics, connectionism, and perception, this title describes a connectionist model that learns perceptually grounded semantics for natural language in spatial terms. Languages differ in the ways in which they structure space, and the authors goal is to have the model perform its learning task for terms from any ...

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Children's Discourse: Person, Space and Time Across Languages more books like this

by Maya Hickmann

This comparative study explores two central questions in the study of first language acquisition: What is the relative impact of structural and functional determinants? What is universal versus language-specific during development? Maya Hickmann addresses these questions in three domains of child language: reference to entities, the representation ...

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Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity more books like this

by Stephen C Levinson (Editor), David Wilkins (Editor)

Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain - is an important area of research, offering insights into one of the most central areas of human cognition. In this collection, a team of leading scholars review the spatial domain across a wide variety of languages. Contrary to existing assumptions, they show that there ...

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Space in Languages of China: Cross-Linguistic, Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives more books like this

by Dan Xu (Editor)

Space has long been a popular topic in linguistic research. Numerous books on the subject have been published over the past decade. However, none of these books were based on linguistic data from Chinese and expressions of space in Chinese have been largely neglected in past research. In this volume, not only Mandarin Chinese (the standard ...

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Referring to Space: Studies in Austronesian and Papuan Languages more books like this

by Gunter Senft (Editor)

The first aim of this anthology is to illustrate the variety of resources that Austronesian and Papuan languages offer their speakers for referring to space. The languages here described are spread from Madagascar to Tonga, and there are many differences between them. They also offer a striking contrast to Indo-European languages, and call into ...

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Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar more books like this

by Gilles Fauconnier (Editor), Eve E Sweetser (Editor), Eve Sweerser (Editor)

In the mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier in the mid-1980s, the mind creates multiple cognitive "spaces" to mediate its understanding of relations and activities in the world, and to engage in creative thought. These 12 original papers extend the mental-spaces framework and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in ...

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Time to Speak: Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites of Time in Language more books like this

by Peter Indefrey (Editor), Marianne Gullberg (Editor)

Time is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and action. All languages have developed rich means to express various facets of time, such as bare time spans, their position on the time line, or their duration. This volume explores what we know about the neural and cognitive representations of time that speakers can draw on in language. The book ...

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Language and Spatial Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Prepositions in English more books like this

by Annette Herskovits

This book provides a precise and thorough description of the meaning and use of spatial expressions, using both a linguistics and an artificial intelligence perspective, and also an enlightening discussion of computer models of comprehension and production in the spatial domain. The author proposes a theoretical framework that explains many ...

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Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens more books like this

by J Hillis Miller

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Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference more books like this

by Laura A Michaelis

This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions. In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best ...

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Dynamiques Du Sens: Etudes de Semiotique Modale more books like this

by Per Aage Brandt

This work contains text in French.

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Voyage Into Language: Space and the Linguistic Encounter, 1500-1800 more books like this

by David B Paxman

In this study, author David Paxman demonstrates that ordinary spatial concepts, together with the changing sense of the earth's space brought about by exploration, navigation, and mapping exerted a strong influence on linguistic thought. Paxman illuminates how our thinking about language as a whole, as well as our exploration of languages, ...

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Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, Space and Person in Finnish more books like this

by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (Editor)

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Spatial Language: Cognitive and Computational Perspectives more books like this

by Kenny R Coventry, P Olivier (Editor)

People constantly talk to each other about experience or knowledge resulting from spatial perception; they describe the size, shape, orientation and position of objects using a wide range of spatial expressions. The semantic treatment of such expressions presents particular challenges for natural language processing. The meaning representation ...

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Space, Time, and the Use of Language: An Investigation of Relationships more books like this

by Thora Tenbrink

Does temporal language depend on spatial language? Many parallels between spatial and temporal expressions, and many examples of metaphorical processes, seem to prove this. But how are expressions such as before and after, in front and behind actually used in natural discourse - does their application reflect a conceptual dependency relation? The ...

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Time Depth in Historical Linguistics more books like this

by Colin Renfrew (Editor)

Time depth constitutes one of the most difficult problems in historical linguistics. Its evaluation is crucial for any systematic comparison with archaeological or genetic data, and hence basic to any broader historical interpretatio. This was the focus for a meeting of some of the world's leading linguistics held in 1999 at the McDonald Institute ...

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Language, Gesture, and Space more books like this

by Karen Emmorey (Editor), Judy S Reilly (Editor)

This study brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the nature and structure of sign languages and other gesteral systems, and how they exploit the space in which they are conveyed.

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The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition more books like this

by Michel Aurnague (Editor)

Deals with language and psychology.

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