Semantic primes and conceptual ontology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. I Introduction
4. Ontolinguistics – An outline 3
5. Ontologies across disciplines 23
6. II Foundations, general ontologies, and linguistic categories
7. The emergence of a shared action ontology: Building blocks for a theory 71
8. Formal representation of concepts: The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology and its use in linguistics 103
9. Linguistic interaction and ontological mediation 115
10. Semantic primes and conceptual ontology 145
11. Using ‘Ontolinguistics’ for language description 175
12. Language as mind sharing device: Mental and linguistic concepts in a general ontology of everyday life 193
13. III Concepts with closed-class coding
14. The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: A neural model 231
15. Postural categories and the classification of nominal concepts: A case study of Goemai 279
16. Spatial ‘on’ – ‘in’ categories and their prepositional codings across languages: Universal constraints on language specificity 299
17. Semantic categorizations and encoding strategies 331
18. IV Categories with open-class coding
19. Taxonomic and meronomic superordinates with nominal coding 359
20. Motion events in concept hierarchies: Identity criteria and French examples 379
21. On the ontological, conceptual, and grammatical foundations of verb classes 395
22. The ontological loneliness of verb phrase idioms 419
23. Relating ontological knowledge and internal structure of eventity concepts 435
24. Backmatter 459