Publication Details
Title: The Meaning of Reference in Embodied Construction Grammar
Author: J. A. Feldman
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: September 2002
PDF: ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/techreports/2002/tr-02-011.pdf
Overview:
The ECG formalism is quite general, specifying only the ways to write and combine the four basic structure types: schemas, constructions, maps, and spaces. Grammars in ECG are deeply cognitive, with meaning being expressed in terms of conceptual primitives such as image schemas, force dynamics, etc. The hypothesis is that a modest number of universal primitives will suffice to provide the core meaning component for the grammar. Referent descriptors entered the ECG formalism as the way of specifying the participants in a semantic specification This note discusses how to specify entity-like referents, focuses on the key issues in Reference, and treats some of the more problematic ones in some detail. It assumes a general knowledge of the NTL paradigm and is not self contained.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-02-011
Bibliographic Reference:
J. A. Feldman. The Meaning of Reference in Embodied Construction Grammar. ICSI Technical Report TR-02-011, September 2002
Author: J. A. Feldman
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: September 2002
PDF: ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/techreports/2002/tr-02-011.pdf
Overview:
The ECG formalism is quite general, specifying only the ways to write and combine the four basic structure types: schemas, constructions, maps, and spaces. Grammars in ECG are deeply cognitive, with meaning being expressed in terms of conceptual primitives such as image schemas, force dynamics, etc. The hypothesis is that a modest number of universal primitives will suffice to provide the core meaning component for the grammar. Referent descriptors entered the ECG formalism as the way of specifying the participants in a semantic specification This note discusses how to specify entity-like referents, focuses on the key issues in Reference, and treats some of the more problematic ones in some detail. It assumes a general knowledge of the NTL paradigm and is not self contained.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-02-011
Bibliographic Reference:
J. A. Feldman. The Meaning of Reference in Embodied Construction Grammar. ICSI Technical Report TR-02-011, September 2002