Joseph Hilferty
Biographic Data
| ID | 6013544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Hilferty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilferty |
| SIGNATURE | HILFERTY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2473-4562 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It proposes a new overarching framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization and explores it in depth through sophisticated computer simulations …
Maximality and idealized cognitive models
Mothers, lies, and bachelors
Anna Wierzbicka's work on semantics is well known not only for her genuinely insightful analyses, but also for her harsh criticisms. This note contests some of Wierzbicka's claims of alleged "prototype abuse" in her controversial article, '"Prototypes save': On the uses and abuses of the notion of 'prototype' in linguistics and related fields" (Wierzbicka 1990). In particular, I argue that the criticisms Wierzbicka levels at the cognitive-model a…
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Mothers, lies, and bachelors
Anna Wierzbicka's work on semantics is well known not only for her genuinely insightful analyses, but also for her harsh criticisms. This note contests some of Wierzbicka's claims of alleged "prototype abuse" in her controversial article, '"Prototypes save': On the uses and abuses of the notion of 'prototype' in linguistics and related fields" (Wierzbicka 1990). In particular, I argue that the criticisms Wierzbicka levels at the cognitive-model a…
Maximality and idealized cognitive models
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It proposes a new overarching framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization and explores it in depth through sophisticated computer simulations …
Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Animacy (1 work) · Anthropological linguistics (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Cognitive grammar (1 work)