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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827955203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-283-32798-8

9786613327987

90-272-7666-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

FuchsCatherine

VictorriBernard

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Semantics

Continuity

Linguistic models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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