In:The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition
Edited by Michel Aurnague, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu
[Human Cognitive Processing 20] 2007
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 18 April 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.20.toc
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Table of contents
Contributors
Introduction: Searching for the categorization of spatial entities in language and cognition
Part I. Spatial Entities and the Structures of Languages: Descriptive Work33
A taxonomy of basic natural entities
On the spatial meaning of contre in French: The role of entities and force dynamics
The prepositions par and à travers and the categorization of spatial entities in French
The linguistic categorization of spatial entities: Classifiers and other nominal classification systems
The expression of semantic components and the nature of ground entity in orientation motion verbs: A cross-linguistic account based on French and Korean
Part II. Spatial categorization in language and cognition: Psycholinguistic and developmental studies151
Categorizing spatial entities with frontal orientation: The role of function, motion and saliency in the processing of the French Internal Localization Nouns avant/devant
Containment, support, and beyond: Constructing topological spatial categories in first language acquisition
Static and dynamic location in French: Developmental and cross-linguistic perspectives
Precursors to spatial language: The case of containment
The sources of spatial cognition
Part III. Characterizing categories of spatial entities: Formal ontology267
From language to ontology: Beware of the traps
The temporal essence of spatial objects
Part-of relations, functionality and dependence
Objects, locations and complex types.
Language index363
Subject index
