A semantic theory of word classes

Summary, in English

Within linguistics a word class is defi ned in grammatical terms as a set of words that exhibit the same syntactic properties. In this paper the aim is to argue that the meanings of different word classes can be given a cognitive grounding. It is shown that with the aid of conceptual spaces, a geometric analysis can be provided for the major word classes. A universal single-domain thesis is proposed, saying that words in all content word classes, except for nouns, refer to a single domain.

• Författare: Peter Gärdenfors
• Avdelning/ar: Kognitionsvetenskap
• Publiceringsår: 2014
• Språk: Svenska
• Sidor: 179-194
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Croatian Journal of Philosophy
• Volym: 14
• Issue: 41
• Länkar: http://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=croatjphil&id=croatjphil_2014_0014_0002_0179_0194&onlyautologin=true
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Kruzak D O O
• Ämne: General Language Studies and Linguistics; Learning
• Nyckelord: Conceptual spaces; cognitive semantics; word classes; single domain; convexity; noun; adjective; verb; preposition; adverb.
• Status: Published
• Projekt: Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
• Forskningsgrupp: Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1333-1108