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Table of contents
Preface3
I. Linguistic Issues
The limits of continuity: discreteness in cognitive semantics9 Continuity and modality21 Continuum in cognition and continuum in language33 Is there continuity in syntax?45 The use of computer corpora in the textual demonstrability of gradience in linguistic categories57 A “continuous definition” of polysemous items: its basis, ressources and limits77 The challenges of continuity for a linguistic approach to semantics93 II. Modelling Issues
What kind of models do we need for the simulation of understanding?111 Continuity, cognition and linguistics127 Reflections on Hansjakob Seiler’s continuum155 Attractor syntax: morphodynamics and cognitive grammar167 A discrete approach based on logic simulating continuity in lexical semantics189 Coarse coding and the lexicon205 Continuity, polysemy and representation: understanding the verb ‘cut’231 The use of continuity in modelling semantic phenomena241 
