Continuity in linguistic semantics / edited by Catherine Fuchs, Bernard Victorri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuchs, Catherine.

Victorri, Bernard.

Series:

Linguisticae investigationes. Supplementa ; v. 19.

Lingvisticæ investigationes. Supplementa, 0165-7569 ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Continuity.

Linguistic models.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until recently, most linguistic theories as well as theories of cognition have avoided use of the notion of continuity. At the moment, however, several linguistic trends, sharing a preoccupation with semantico-cognitive problems (e.g. cognitive grammars, 'psychomechanics', 'enunciative theories'), are trying to go beyond the constraints imposed by discrete approaches. At the same time, mathematical (e.g. differential geometry and dynamical systems) and computer science tools (e.g. connectionism) have been proposed that can be used for modelling of continuous linguistic phenomena.In this volume

Contents:

The limits of continuity : discreteness in cognitive semantics / Ronald Langacker

Continuity and modality / Antoine Culioli

Continuum in cognition and continuum in language / Hans-Jakob Seiler

Is there continuity in syntax? / Pierre Le Goffic

The use of computer corpora in the textual demonstrability of gradience in linguistic categories / Geoffrey Leech, Brian Francis & Xunfeng Xu

A "continuous definition" of polysemous items / Jacqueline Picoche

The challenges of continuity for a linguistic approach to semantics / Catherine Fuchs

What kind of models do we need for the simulation of understanding? / Daniel Kayser

Continuity, cognition, and linguistics / Jean-Michel Salanskis

Reflections on Hansjakob Seiler's continuum / René Thom

Attractor syntax / Jean Petitot

A discrete approach based on logic simulating continuity in lexical semantics / Violaine Prince

Coarse coding and the lexicon / Catherine L. Harris

Continuity, polysemy, and representation : understanding the verb "cut" / David Touretzky

The use of continuity in modelling semantic phenomena / Bernard Victorri.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-32798-8

9786613327987

90-272-7666-8

OCLC:

762097251