Antonymy In Space And Other Strictly Ordered Domains

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition Logic and Communication

Rett, Jessica¹ 

[1] UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)

关键词: natural language;    antonymy;    strictly ordered domains;    formal semantics;    distinct domains;    distinct entities;   

DOI  :  10.4148/1944-3676.1095

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: New Prairie Press

【 摘 要 】

Natural language references different types of entities. Some of these entities (e.g. degrees, locations, times) are strictly ordered with respect to one another; others (e.g. individuals, possible worlds) are not. The empirical goal of this paper is to show that some linguistically encoded relations across these domains (e.g. under, slower than) display a polar asymmetry, while others do not. The theoretical goal of this paper is to argue that this asymmetry – and its restriction to only certain relations – is due to intrinsic properties of strictly ordered domains, coupled with a bias in how language users perceive these domains.

【 授权许可】

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