Computability as a limiting cognitive constraint

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Cultural Patterns, language and cognition
6. Foxy chicks and Playboy bunnies 9
7. The domain of ancestral spirits in Bantu noun classification 25
8. DEFERENCE as DISTANCE 47
9. Spatial conceptualization of time in Chinese 69
10. Part II: Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic approaches
11. An “intersubjective” method for cognitive-semantic research on polysemy 87
12. Prepositional semantics and the fragile link between space and time 107
13. Computability as a limiting cognitive constraint 129
14. Metaphor vs. conflation in the acquisition of polysemy 155
15. Acquisition of the Finnish conditional verb forms in formulaic utterances 171
16. Cognitive compositionality 195
17. Perceptual simulation in conceptual tasks 209
18. Dynamic conceptualization and the substitution of nouns and verbs in aphasia 229
19. Neuroscientific evidence against Wierzbicka's analysis of the meanings of basic color terms 249
20. Part III: Typological issues
21. Specification in grammar 269
22. The typology of 1st person marking and its cognitive background 285
23. Emergent grammatical relations 299
24. The story of “break” 313
25. Index 333
26. List of Contributors 337