Greg Detre
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
�To
sum up our discussion of the ecological niche for specifically linguistic
semantics in the f-mind: there is such a niche, but not as a separate level of
structure. Distinctions like �logical/non-logical� and
�dictionary/encyclopaedia� seem impossible to draw, and don�t appear to make
any useful functional distinction in an account of the f-mind. Rather,
linguistic semantics per se is the study of the interface between
conceptualisation and linguistic form (phonology and syntax). It therefore
studies the organisations of conceptualisation that can be expressed or invoked
by language. In particular, lexical semantics studies the organisations
of conceptualisation that can be bundled up in a single word (or to be clear,
in an interface rule whose other end is a morpheme). But all such work can be
pursued in the framework of a functional architecture simple like Figure 9.1,
where there is no level of �strictly linguistic meaning� intervening between
linguistic form and concepts.�
I don�t know how original it is, but it felt as though it could go a long way towards reconciling the different types of meaning and qualia under the same umbrella.
phrasal verb � an idiomatic verbal phrase consisting of a verb and adverb (e.g. break down) or a verb and preposition (e.g. see to).
how
contentious are the following claims???
about the reference of declarative sentences
language being about representations rather than the external world