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A semantic theory of word classes

Gärdenfors, Peter LU (2014) In Croatian Journal of Philosophy 14(41). p.179-194
Abstract
Within linguistics a word class is defi ned in grammatical terms as a set of words that exhibit the same syntactic properties. In this paper the aim is to argue that the meanings of different word classes can be given a cognitive grounding. It is shown that with the aid of conceptual spaces, a geometric analysis can be provided for the major word classes. A universal single-domain thesis is proposed, saying that words in all content word classes, except for nouns, refer to a single domain.
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Conceptual spaces, cognitive semantics, word classes, single domain, convexity, noun, adjective, verb, preposition, adverb.
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Croatian Journal of Philosophy
volume
14
issue
41
pages
179 - 194
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Institute of Philosophy
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1333-1108
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Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
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Swedish
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