Event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs

Theoretical Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 159-193

  Warglien, Massimo ^a   Gärdenfors, Peter ^b   Westera, Matthijs ^c  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actions; Aspect; Conceptual spaces; Events; Force vector; Manner result complementarity; Result vector; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877969131     PISSN: 03014428     EISSN: 16134060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/tl-2012-0010     Document Type: Article

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