The 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language will take place at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) on 18-20 October, 2008.
CSDL features papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition.
The theme of CSDL 9 […]
Mark Turner has a thorough and frequently updated bibliography on blending/conceptual integration.
Blending & Conceptual Integration
Wasow, T. & Arnold, J.
Intuitions in Linguistic Argumentation.
Lingua: International Review of General Linguistics, 2005, 1481-1496.
Generative grammarians have relied on introspective intuitions of well-formedness as their primary source of data. The overreliance on this one type of data and the unsystematic manner in which they are collected cast doubt on the empirical basis of a great […]
Linguistic Mystic has a very good IPA character entry mechanism for MacOS only.
Slobin, Dan I
Biology and Knowledge, J Langer, S. T. Parker, C. Milbrath (2004)
Dan Slobin examines (and refutes) the hypothesis that child language serves as a good parallel to the evolution of language in proto-hominids. A very well written paper that makes frequent comparisons to the classical version of the recapitulationist argument.
The fantastic OmniGraffle by Omni Software is an excellent tool for diagrams of any kind. I’ve put together an OmniGraffle stencil for constructing MST-based diagrams and it’s available for download at GraffleTopia.
I’ll be updating this with representations for other features, such as aspect and temporality, and whatever else seems interesting, like conceptual integration diagrams. Email […]
Slobin, Dan I.
Language in Mind: Advances in the study of language and thought (pp. 157-192)
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Brandt, Line
October, 2000
This piece was a chapter of Brandt’s Thesis at Roskilde University. It covers expansions of and ‘philosophical differences’ with the Mental Spaces theory as defined by Fauconnier et al. Most particularly, she expands the model to deal with longer narratives.
She has particular and frequently voiced criticism for what she considers the failures of […]