Continuity in Linguistic Semantics (Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa)

CONTINUITY IN LINGUISTIC SEMANTICS......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
PART I. LINGUISTIC ISSUES......Page 12
THE LIMITS OF CONTINUITY : DISCRETENESS IN COGNITIVE SEMANTICS......Page 14
REFERENCES......Page 24
1. The choice of a theoretical framework and an attempt at a definition of continuity......Page 26
2. The example of pouvoir......Page 29
3. Manifestations of continuity in other types of examples......Page 34
REFERENCES......Page 37
2. Theses about the continuum......Page 38
3. The cognitive-conceptual dimension of Participation......Page 39
4. Linguistic coding and typology......Page 44
5. Concluding remarks......Page 46
REFERENCES......Page 48
1. Discreteness : a point of transition between two continuities......Page 50
3. Are units totally discrete ?......Page 52
4. Problems of grammatical categorization......Page 54
5. The example of Fr. que......Page 56
REFERENCES......Page 60
1. Introduction......Page 62
2. An Example of Gradience : the English Genitive and of-Constructions......Page 64
3. Technique of Analysis......Page 65
4. Step-by-step Methodology......Page 66
5. Statistical Modelling......Page 71
6. Conclusions Drawn from the Analysis......Page 76
7. General Conclusion......Page 78
REFERENCES......Page 80
1. How to build a \"continuous; definition\"......Page 82
2.1. Basis......Page 88
2.2. Resources......Page 89
2.3. Limits......Page 90
2.4. Specificity......Page 91
REFERENCES......Page 97
0. Introduction......Page 98
1. The linguistic phenomena......Page 99
2. Underlying problematics......Page 101
3. Arguments : the example of polysemy......Page 104
REFERENCES......Page 111
PART II. MODELLING ISSUES......Page 114
1. The Framework......Page 116
2. Against Arguments of Necessity......Page 117
3 . Continuity versus Multiplicity......Page 119
a) Labelling facts and Meta-Reasoning......Page 122
b) Qualitative Physics......Page 124
c) Vagueness......Page 125
d) Thresholds and Trade-offs......Page 126
e) Consistency......Page 127
6. Conclusion......Page 128
REFERENCES......Page 130
CONTINUUM, COGNITION AND LINGUISTICS......Page 132
1.1. The perception input......Page 133
1.2. Cognitive dynamism......Page 136
1.3. A continuum of meaning ?......Page 141
2.1. The position of the problem......Page 145
2.2. The cognitive point of view : Talmy and Poincaré......Page 147
2.3. Confrontation between cognitive-linguistic space and transcen-dental/geometrical space......Page 150
3. Conclusion : the dispute of continuum......Page 154
REFERENCES......Page 157
1. The opposition Continuous-Discrete : Generalities......Page 160
2. The Discrete in the continuous......Page 161
3. The notion of genus and the couple Genus-Species......Page 164
4. Archeology of Seiler\'s continuum......Page 166
5. Seiler\'s continuum and the theory of C.S. Peirce......Page 168
REFERENCES......Page 171
Introduction......Page 172
1.1. The main arguments of Fodor and Pylyshyn\n......Page 173
1.2. Smolensky\'s tensorial product......Page 174
1.3. The core of the debate : the need of a configurational definition of the roles......Page 175
2. From syntactic constituency to cognitive archetypes......Page 177
3. From cognitive image-schemas to perceptive constituency......Page 179
4. Contour propagation and the cut locus theory......Page 180
REFERENCES......Page 190
A DISCRETE APPROACH BASED ON LOGIC SIMULATING CONTINUITY IN LEXICAL SEMANTICS......Page 194
1.1. An undecidability in the type of relationship between concepts and polysemous words......Page 195
1.2. Are polysemous words modifiers of the essence of concepts ?......Page 197
2.1. Continuity as a decomposition into fine-grained particles......Page 198
2.1.1. Example of a componential representation of continuity......Page 199
2.1.2. Continuity in the depth of interpretation......Page 200
2.3. The EDGAR1 model : a possible solution considering constraints and goals......Page 203
2.3.1. Formalization of the lexical model......Page 204
2.3.2. Formalization of the interpretation function......Page 205
2.4. Possibilities and Limits of the EDGAR model......Page 206
REFERENCES......Page 208
COARSE CODING AND THE LEXICON......Page 210
Coarse Coding and Locating Visual Features......Page 212
Coarse Coding and the Lexicon......Page 213
Is the word the building block ?......Page 214
Words\' contextual stickiness......Page 218
Why don\'t words with many meanings, or one abstract meaning, pose a comprehension burden ?......Page 220
Computational realization......Page 221
Construction of corpus and training......Page 222
Network behavior......Page 223
Assessment of the implementation of prepositional polysemy......Page 226
Processing Factors......Page 227
Closing Remarks, Related Approaches......Page 228
REFERENCES......Page 231
1. The Verb cut......Page 236
2. Inference in Localist Networks......Page 239
3. Continuity and Distributed Networks......Page 241
4 . The Holy Grail......Page 242
REFERENCES......Page 244
1.1. Categorisation......Page 246
1.2. Compositionality......Page 247
1.3. Representation of meaning......Page 248
2.2. Discreteness......Page 249
3.1 Qualitative modelling......Page 250
3.2 Dynamical systems......Page 251
4.1. Continuity on a digital computer......Page 252
4.2. Connectionism......Page 253
4.3. Current limits of connectionism......Page 254
REFERENCES......Page 256
INDEX......Page 258