> Oh, so I was a cognitivist and I didn't know it !
> Thanks for bringing to light unknown aspects of my
> personality ;-)
>
> Anyway, I think that even if someone doesn't agree
> with Jackendoff, this book (Semantic Structures) is
> quite interesting. The difficult thing is like
> usually, to know where the author wants to get to, so
> I read the Epilogue to have an idea of it. I also
> noticed the idea (I already read somewhere before)
> that the brain handles with primitives it disposes of
> ever before having any world experience (J. calls it
> the "basic machinery"). As an example, he points out
> that iterative (repetition of an event) is,
> essentially, the same primitive concept as plural. One
> applies to events, the other one to things. That's not
> bad. Now I really have to READ this book (up till now,
> I just jumped from one chapter to another, being eager
> to fetch the main ideas).
>
> I think J. refers to Talmy here and there (also to
> Marr, who seemed to have had a very exciting idea
> about spatial and structural representation of an
> object, put in a linguistic way). I also heard of
> Lakoff before, but never read anything from him. How
> much remains to read before I die !
>
> --- John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> wrote:
> > Philippe Caquant wrote:
> >
> >
> > Your statements point out quite clearly the flaw in
> > approaching semantics
> > from a syntactic perspective, as Jackendoff does.
> > IMHO, the only group of
> > linguists so far who are on the right track when it
> > comes to semantics are
> > the cognitivists such as Leonard Talmy, Gilles
> > Fauconnier and George
> > Lakoff. Talmy's 2-volume set "Toward a Cognitive
> > Semantics" has been
> > extremely influential in my own conlanging efforts.
> >
>
>
> =====
> Philippe Caquant
>
> "High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)
>
>
>
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