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Language and other human complex expressive abilities are consequences of the development, fifty thousand years ago, of the uniquely human capacity for advanced conceptual integration. Expressions are prompts for conceptual integration patterns. We use them to prompt other people to perform conceptual integrations. Once double-scope blending became available to human.

I treat the mind as a biological question: language and thought are adaptations that extend abilities we share with other animals. For well over a century, this has been the standard scientific approach to other mental capacities such as vision and motor control. But language and thought, even now, are.

There are essentially three reasons for conducting quantitative research: (1) quantifying a particular question forces one to consider a wide range of data, which in turn makes the analyses more reliable; (2) data from quantitative studies are a crucial part of testing empirical hypotheses; (3) quantitative studies are in a.

The turn of the present century has seen the emergence of several possibilities for a meeting of minds, as some generative linguists begin to try to account for cognition‑based structures (e.g., Jackendoff 1983, 2002), for productivity (e.g., Jackendoff 2002), for the dynamic, emergent properties of the speaker’s knowledge of the.

L’affaiblissement du sens et l’affaiblissement de la forme des mots accessoires vont de pair; quand l’un et l’autre sont assez avancés, le mot accessoire peut finir par ne plus être qu’un élément privé de sens propre, joint à un mot principal pour en marquer le rôle grammatical. Le changement d’un.

The most important point that can be made from the discussion of mechanisms of semantic change is that context is all‑important. Everything that happens to the meaning of a gram happens because of the contexts in which it is used. It is the use of language in context that shapes.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconcious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. These are the major findings of cognitive science. More than two millennia of a priori philosophical speculation about these aspects of reason are over. Because of these discoveries, philosophy can never be the same again. When.

Una de las aportaciones más importantes de la Teoría de la Metáfora Conceptual es el descubrimiento de que gran parte de lo que decimos tiene una base metafórica. Esto no quiere decir que sea creativo, sino que el significado de esas construcciones (sustantivos, verbos, preposiciones, expresiones idiomáticas, etc.) está basado.

The antecedence of functionalism in linguistics should not be sought primarily in the work of linguists, but rather in the work of antropologists, psycologists, and biologists. And long before them, in the work of philosophers. […] however, the best point of departure for functionalism is to be found in biology,.

A legacy of the structural tradition in linguistics is the widespread acceptance of the premise that language structure is independent of language use. This premise is codified in a variety of theoretical distinctions, such as langue and parole (Saussure 1916) and competence and performance (Chomsky 1965). A further premise of.