A hierarchy of locations

Evidence From the Encoding of Direction in Adpositions and Cases

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3989494
AutoresJoost Zwarts (0000-0002-8892-6523, Utrecht University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen48
Número5
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2010.032
OpenAlexW2094097611
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas11

The encoding of direction (place, goal, source, route) in systems of adpositions and local cases is not uniformly distributed over different locations (at, in, under), but can be shown to follow a hierarchical pattern. This pattern is compared with similar hierarchies proposed in the literature about the acquisition and typology of spatial language. Differences in semantic complexity and pragmatic salience between locations might explain why such a hierarchy exists

Encoding (memory) · Geography · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Political science · Salience (neuroscience) · Typology · Artificial Intelligence · Categorization, perception, and language · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation