The geometry and dynamics of meaning

P Gärdenfors - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An enigma for human languages is that children learn to understand words in their mother
tongue extremely fast. The cognitive sciences have not been able to fully understand the …

Attentional semantics of deictic locatives

KU Carstensen - Lingua, 2023 - Elsevier
Since Bühler's influential work on context-dependent, deictic expressions, much research
has been devoted to the underlying concepts and cross-linguistic variation of linguistic …

Demonstratives and the noun phrase structure of Hakha Chin

JC Wamsley - Indiana Working Papers in South Asian …, 2019 - scholarworks.iu.edu
Demonstratives are linked to spatial deixis, definiteness, and other semantic and pragmatic
functions. This paper looks at the demonstrative class in Hakha Chin, a Kuki-Chin language …

Syntactic position, qualitative features and extended demonstrative functions: dagaare distal demonstratives nὲ and lὲ in interactional discourse

IN Mwinlaaru, FH Yap - Journal of Pragmatics, 2021 - Elsevier
Research has shown that demonstratives are used beyond their basic meanings to encode
various extended discourse functions. Based on data from the Lobr dialect of Dagaare …

Using event representations to generate robot semantics

P Gärdenfors - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 2019 - dl.acm.org
Most semantic models employed in human-robot interactions concern how a robot can
understand commands, but in this article the aim is to present a framework that allows …

[PDF][PDF] Determiners from a functional-typological perspective

J Rijkhoff - The Oxford Handbook of Determiners, 2021 - academia.edu
Since there is no overall consensus as to what counts as a member of the category
Determiner in the noun phrase, there can be considerable differences in the way this …

[PDF][PDF] THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DILEMA OF THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC FIELD OF TEMPORALITY IN LINGUISTICS

GB ALIYEVA - АКТУАЛЬНI ПИТАННЯ ГУМАНIТАРНИХ …, 2022 - dspace.uzhnu.edu.ua
The article analyzes aspects of the functional-semantic field of temporality from the point of
view of functional linguistics. According to modern research, the concept of the semantic …

Simile demonstratives in Croatian: quantity, quality and beyond

M Brala-Vukanović, P Gärdenfors… - FLUMINENSIA: časopis za …, 2021 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak We investigate a particular subclass of semantic features associated with
demonstratives of quantity and quality, and the respective interrogatives. We explore these …

[PDF][PDF] THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DILEMA OF THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC FIELD OF TEMPORALITY IN LINGUISTICS ТЕОРЕТИКО …

GB Aliyeva - ФІЛОЛОГІЧНІ СТУДІЇ, 2022 - dspace.uzhnu.edu.ua
У статті проаналізовано аспекти функціонально-семантичного поля темпоральності
(часових категорій) з точки зору функціональної лінгвістики. Відповідно до сучасних …

SIMILE DEMONSTRATIVES IN CROATIAN: QUANTITY, QUALITY AND BEYOND

MB Vukanović, P Gärdenfors, M Matešić - FLUMINENSIA: časopis za …, 2021 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak U radu se istražuje posebna potkategorija značenjskih obilježja zamjenica i
zamjeničkih priloga kojima se u hrvatskome jeziku izražavaju količinska i kvalitativna …