Chilton, P. (2007) Geometrical concepts at the interface of formal and cognitive verbs: Aktionsart, aspect, and the English progressive. Pragmatics & Cognition, 15 (1). pp. 91-114.
Full text not available from this repository.Abstract
The paper has two related aims. One is to outline a proposal for a spatially motivated model of discourse, called Discourse Space Theory. The other is to use this framework to explore, in a relatively formalised way, the spatial basis of the conceptual complexities arising in the uses of the English progressive verb form (be+-ing). The theory utilises an abstract space in three dimensions (time, space and modality). Verb stems are associated with Aktionsart schemas; aspectual forms like the progressive are viewed as operations on these schemas. The proposal is that geometric concepts, specifically coordinate systems and vectors, can provide a motivated formalism for investigating conceptual structures generated by a human discourse processor.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Pragmatics & Cognition |
| Additional Information: | RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Linguistics |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language |
| ID Code: | 3926 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer |
| Deposited On: | 05 Mar 2008 14:47 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 17:59 |
| Identification Number: | |
| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/3926 |
Actions (login required)
| View Item |
