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A semantic theory of word classes

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Summary, in English

Within linguistics a word class is defi ned in grammatical terms as a set of words that exhibit the same syntactic properties. In this paper the aim is to argue that the meanings of different word classes can be given a cognitive grounding. It is shown that with the aid of conceptual spaces, a geometric analysis can be provided for the major word classes. A universal single-domain thesis is proposed, saying that words in all content word classes, except for nouns, refer to a single domain.

Department/s

Publishing year

2014

Language

Swedish

Pages

179-194

Publication/Series

Croatian Journal of Philosophy

Volume

14

Issue

41

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Kruzak D O O

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics
  • Learning

Keywords

  • Conceptual spaces
  • cognitive semantics
  • word classes
  • single domain
  • convexity
  • noun
  • adjective
  • verb
  • preposition
  • adverb.

Status

Published

Project

  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning

Research group

  • Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1333-1108