Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Cognitive Structures in Natural Language Semantics -- 2 Cognitive Structures in Philosophy -- 3 Cognitive Structures in Psychology -- 4 Summaries -- 4.1 Part I Pushing the Boundaries of Formal Semantics -- 4.2 Part II Concept Theory -- 4.3 Part III Conceptualizing Eventualities -- 4.4 Part IV Prototypes and Probabilities -- 4.5 Part V Cognition and Psychology -- References -- Pushing the Boundaries of Formal Semantics -- A Compositional Pluralist Semantics for Extensional and Attitude Verbs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Accounts of Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content -- 2.1 The Relation Between Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content -- 2.2 Attempts at (Re-)Connecting Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content -- 2.3 Desiderata for an Account of Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content -- 3 Integrated Semantics -- 3.1 Centered Informational Situations -- 3.2 The Integrated Content of Sentences -- 3.3 The Interpretation of Proper Names -- 4 The Compositional Interpretation of VPs -- 5 Extensional and Attitude Verbs in IS -- 5.1 The Interpretation of Extensional Verbs -- 5.2 The Interpretation of Attitude Verbs -- 5.3 Attitudinal Embeddings of Extensional Verbs -- 6 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Counting Possible Configurations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Problem with Configurations -- 3 An Individual Concept Analysis -- 4 Generalizing the Individual Concept Analysis -- 4.1 Is Everything an Individual Concept? -- 4.2 Coercion to Constituting Parts -- 4.3 Joining and Counting Individual Concepts -- 4.4 Collective and Cumulative Interpretations -- 5 The Property Analysis -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Structure and Ontology in Nonlocal Readings of Adjectives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nonlocal Readings of Adjectives -- 2.1 On `Occasional' -- 2.2 Returning to `Average' -- 2.3 Wrong.

2.4 `Whole' and `Entire' -- 2.5 Epistemic Adjectives -- 2.6 Same and Different -- 2.7 Modal Superlatives: `Possible' and Its Kin -- 2.8 Miscellaneous Obscurities and Novelties -- 3 Three Classes of Nonlocal Readings -- 4 Some Background -- 4.1 Incorporation -- 4.2 Structure Versus Ontology: The First Step -- 4.3 The Kind Analysis of `Occasional' -- 5 The Modular Strategy -- 5.1 Determiner-Like Adjectives -- 5.2 Determiners That Work -- 5.3 Determiners That Don't Work -- 5.4 A Word About `Occasional' -- 5.5 The Weak Quantifier Class -- 5.6 Summary -- 6 Taking Stock -- 6.1 Could Things Be so Simple? -- 6.2 Kinds and Concepts -- 7 Final Remarks -- References -- Concept Theory -- How Can Semantics Avoid the Troubles with the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction? -- 1 Semantics and the Architecture of Cognition -- 2 The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and Semantic Theories -- 2.1 Causatives -- 2.2 Indeterminacy (or "Coercion") -- 3 Alternative: Atomism and Inferences -- 3.1 Back to Causatives -- 3.2 Back to "Coercion" -- 3.3 Conclusion: Atomic Concepts and Inferences -- References -- Linguistic Relativity and Flexibility of Mental Representations: Color Terms in a Frame Based Analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Color Terms and Whorfianism: Some Coordinates -- 2.1 Universalism, ``deep'' and ``shallow'' Whorfianism -- Intertwined Issues -- 2.2 ``Shallow'' Effects of Color labelling -- 3 Frames and Representation of Colors -- 4 Color Words and Flexible Use of Representations' Features -- 5 A Brief Excursus into Another Conceptual Domain: Counting and Motor Representations -- 6 Back on Colors: Stroop Task And Language-Perception Interface -- 7 Conclusions and Open Questions -- References -- Implicatures and Naturalness -- 1 Theoretical Background -- 2 Input Data -- 3 Building an Implicature Space -- 4 Naturalness -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References.

Perception, Types and Frames -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Types and Cognition -- 3 Record Types and Frames -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Conceptualizing Eventualities -- An XMG Account of Multiplicity of Meaning in Derivation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Analysis -- 3 XMG Implementation -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Operationalizing the Role of Context in Language Variation: The Role of Perspective Alignment in the Spanish Imperfective Domain -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On the Spanish Present-Progressive and Simple-Present Markers -- 3 The Meaning of the Progressive and the Imperfective: A Communicative Perspective -- 4 The Markers of the Spanish Progressive Are not in Free Variation: Implications -- 5 Analysis: The Psychological Roots of Shared Perceptual Access -- 6 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- A Frame-Based Analysis of Verbal Particles in Hungarian -- 1 The Verbal Particle in Hungarian -- 2 Scalar Analysis and Frame-Semantic Representation -- 3 Semantic Analysis of Verbal Particles -- 4 Semantic Composition and the Syntax-Semantics Interface -- 5 Summary -- References -- On the Fictive Reading of German Steigen 'Climb, Rise': A Frame Account -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Previous Accounts of Fictive Motion -- 3 The Four Major Readings of Steigen 'Climb, Rise, Step' -- 4 Frame Analysis of Dynamic Steigen: Manner and Directional Reading -- 4.1 Frames for Objects -- 4.2 Steigenmm -- 4.3 Steigendir -- 5 Steigenfict: Admissible Modifiers and Subject Referents -- 6 Frame Analysis of Steigenfict -- 7 Steigenins -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Cascades. Goldman's Level-Generation, Multilevel Categorization of Action, and Multilevel Verb Semantics -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Intuitive Notion of "Level-Generation" -- 1.2 The Structure of the Chapter -- 2 Level-Generation: Doing Multiple Things in One.

2.1 Preliminary: Act-Tokens, Act-Types, and Act-TTs -- 2.2 Goldman's Theory of Act-Levels -- 2.3 Critics of Goldman's Theory -- 2.4 Goldman's Theory of Human Action Applied to Cognitive Representation -- 2.5 Level-Generation and Augmentation Generation -- 2.6 C-Constitution -- 3 Cascades and Verb Classes -- 3.1 Basic Versus Non-basic Act-Types -- 3.2 Verbs of Basic and Non-basic Action -- 3.3 Criterion Predicates -- 3.4 Means of Explicit Level-Generation -- 3.5 Implicit Level-Generation -- 4 Cascades and Frames -- 4.1 Barsalou Frames -- 4.2 Cascades in Frame Theory -- 5 The Writing Cascade -- 5.1 Austin's Speech Act Cascade -- 5.2 The Cascade Structure of Writing by Hand -- 5.3 Types of Products and Levels of Manner Modification -- 5.4 Agencies at Cascade Levels -- 5.5 Objects at Cascade Levels -- 5.6 A Multitrack Notion of C-Constitution -- 6 Reference and Composition -- 6.1 Meaning and Reference of the Verb Write -- 6.2 Cascades and Composition -- 7 Conclusion: Cascades in Cognition, Semantics, and Life -- References -- Prototypes and Probabilities -- Modification and Default Inheritance -- 1 Prototype Compositionality and Modification -- 2 An Extended Modification Model -- 3 Experimental Data -- 3.1 Constraint Influences in the Data of Connolly et al. (ch14Connollyetal2007) -- 3.2 Experiments -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- A Frame-Theoretic Model of Bayesian Category Learning -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Weighted Bayesian Models of Categorisation -- 3 Frames -- 3.1 Challenges and Future Developments -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Extremes are Typical. A Game Theoretical Derivation -- 1 Typicality: Prototypes Versus Stereotypes -- 2 Typicality and Structured Meaning Spaces -- 3 Extremes and Iterated Best Response -- 4 Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- Grading Similarity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Similarity Demonstratives.

3 Three Types of Similarity Expressions -- 4 Gradability of �ahnlich/similar -- 4.1 What Does It Mean to Be More Similar? -- 4.2 Gradability and Granularity -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix: Granularity in Multi-dimensional Attribute Spaces -- Domains and Representations -- Indiscernibility -- Granularity and Gradability -- References -- Cognition and Psychology -- Escitalopram Restores Reversal Learning Impairments in Rats with Lesions of Orbital Frontal Cortex -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 How Is Behavioural Flexibility Measured and Cognitive Flexibility Inferred? -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Animals -- 2.2 Apparatus -- 2.3 Surgery -- 2.4 Experiment 1: The Effects of Escitalopram on Reversal Learning -- 2.5 Experiment 2: Fos Activity After 1 mg/kg Escitalopram -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Experiment 1 -- 3.2 Experiment 2 -- 4 Discussion -- 4.1 Reversal Learning -- 4.2 The Effects of OFC Lesions on Reversal Learning -- 4.3 The Effects of Escitalopram on Reversal Learning -- 4.4 Fos Activity -- References -- Rat Ultrasonic Vocalizations as Social Reinforcers-Implications for a Multilevel Model of the Cognitive Representation of Action and Rats' Social World -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Subjects -- 2.2 Experimental Setup -- 2.3 Acoustic Stimuli -- 2.4 Task Design -- 2.5 Data Analysis -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- 5 A Cognitive Perspective: Acting at Multiple Levels -- 5.1 Goldman's Multilevel Theory of Human Action -- 5.2 Cascades and Learning -- 5.3 Applying Cascade Theory to Rat Behavior in the Experiments Reported -- 5.4 Psychological Commitments of the Cascade Approach -- 5.5 What Can the Cascade Approach Buy Us? -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Influence of Manner Adverbs on Action Verb Processing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experiment 1 -- 2.1 Methods -- 2.2 Results -- 3 Experiment 2 -- 3.1 Methods -- 3.2 Results -- 3.3 Discussion -- References.

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