Language and Spatial Cognition - An Interdisciplinary Study of the Prepositions in English

Klappentext This book provides a precise and thorough description of the meaning and use of spatial expressions. Zusammenfassung This book provides a precise and thorough description of the meaning and use of spatial expressions! using both a linguistics and an artificial intelligence perspective! and also an enlightening discussion of computer models of comprehension and production in the spatial domain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Descriptive Framework: 1. Meaning and use of locative expressions; 2. Normal situation types; 3. Purpose; 4. Ideal meanings; 5. Geometric descriptions; 6. Pragmatic factors; 7. Use types; Part II. An Excursion into Computer Models: 8. Decoding and encoding; Part III. Case Studies: 9. The three basic topological prepositions; 10. The projective prepositions; Conclusion: Index.

Product details

• Authors: Annette Herskovits, Herskovits Annette
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521109185
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10918-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Studies in Natural Language Pr; Studies in Natural Language Processing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Computational Linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics