Relating ontological knowledge and internal structure of eventity concepts

Title
Relating ontological knowledge and internal structure of eventity concepts
Publication Date
2007
Author(s)
Schalley, Andrea
Editor
Editor(s): Andrea C. Schalley & Dietmar Zaefferer
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Place of publication
Berlin, Germany
Edition
1
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and monographs (TiLSM)
UNE publication id
une:2341
Abstract
This paper addresses the role ontological knowledge plays in the conceptualization of 'eventities' (events and similar entities, cf. Zaefferer 2002), of entities that are typically encoded by verbs in natural languages. We will approach this issue by asking which meaning components are needed for detailed decompositional representations of verbal semantics and how these components can be combined with one another. Decompositional representations of verbal semantics (and hence of eventities) depict, besides specific content information, the internal structure of eventity concepts. Accordingly, representations comprise components that convey underlying structural information - in addition to expressing content information. Such structural information includes, for instance, components that represent statal structure and those that represent activity structure.
Link
Citation
Ontolinguistics: how ontological status shapes the linguistic coding of concepts, p. 435-458
ISBN
9783110189971
Start page
435
End page
458

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