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Chapter 3
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain

Explaining semantics without semantics

 | University of Alberta
Published online: 13 October 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.238.03wes
Article outline
  • Thesis
  • Commentaries on Westbury thesis
    • Ray Jackendoff commentary on Westbury thesis
    • James Myers commentary on Westbury thesis
    • Dorit Ravid commentary on Westbury thesis
    • Russel Richie commentary on Westbury thesis
    • Benjamin Tucker commentary on Westbury thesis
  • The article
    • What makes an explanation non-dormitive?
    • Mapping lexical semantics into other domains
      • Domain 1: Co-occurrence of linguistic units
      • Domain 2: Extensions to discriminative learning
      • Domain 3: Word form
      • Domain 4: Action in the real world
      • Domain 5: Real world simulation
      • Domain 6: Embodied human experience
      • Domain 7: Metaphorical extensions of embodied human experience
      • Domain 8: Affect
    • Semantics as a mapping from multiple domains
      • a.Semantic representations are not unitary
      • b.Semantic access is not one single process
    • Explaining semantics without semantics
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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