This paper reasserts the fundamental conceptual distinction between language-particular
categories of individual languages, defined within particular systems, and comparative …

To English speakers, the distinctions between blue and green, cup and glass, or cut and
break seem self‐evident. The intuition is that these words label categories that have an …

" Comparison of the grammars of human languages reveals systematic patterns of variation.
Typology and universals research uncovers those patterns to formulate universal constraints …

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

In this discussion note, I argue that we need to distinguish carefully between descriptive
categories, that is, categories of particular languages, and comparative concepts, which are …

Linguistic typology aims to capture structural and semantic variation across the world's
languages. A large-scale typology could provide excellent guidance for multilingual Natural …

The Simulation Framework, also known as the Embodied Cognition Framework, maintains
that conceptual knowledge is grounded in sensorimotor systems. To test several predictions …

These lively lectures introduce the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous
and non Anglocentic approach to cross-linguistic semantics. Topics include semantic primes …

Предлагаемая вниманию читателя монография посвящена современному
междисциплинарному направлению, возникшему на стыке языкознания и …

According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features
of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for …