Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Spatial Entities and the Structures of Languages: Descriptive Work
6. A taxonomy of basic natural entities 35
7. On the spatial meaning of contre in French 53
8. The prepositions par and à travers and the categorization of spatial entities in French 71
9. The linguistic categorization of spatial entities 93
10. The expression of semantic components and the nature of ground entity in orientation motion verbs 123
11. Part II. Spatial categorization in language and cognition
12. Categorizing spatial entities with frontal orientation 153
13. Containment, support, and beyond 177
14. Static and dynamic location in French 205
15. Precursors to spatial language 233
16. The sources of spatial cognition 247
17. Part III. Characterizing categories of spatial entities: Formal ontology
18. From language to ontology 269
19. The temporal essence of spatial objects 285
20. Part-of relations, functionality and dependence 307
21. Objects, locations and complex types. 337
22. Language index 363
23. Subject index 365