Aspects of Space

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Kracht, Marcus¹ 

[1] Universität Bielefeld, Germany$$Universität Bielefeld, GermanyUniversität Bielefeld, Germany$$

关键词: spatial expressions;    model theoretic semantics;    semantics;    cognitive linguistics;    cognition;   

DOI  :  10.4148/1944-3676.1097

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: New Prairie Press

【 摘 要 】

It is argued that spatial expressions come together with an encoding of the space called "aspect", which changes as we climb up the syntactic tree. The changing nature of aspect is necessary in order to simplify the meanings of elements. What appears to be a rather peculiar property of an element will be perfectly natural once we acknowledge that the elements compute on the space viewed in a particular way. Coordinates are always rooted in the landmark, for example. Thus, for the purpose of the distinction between static and dynamic it is not the "absolute" motion of the figure that counts, but the motion relative to the landmark.

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