Semantics as a gateway to language

  • This paper presents an account of semantics as a system that integrates conceptual representations into language. I define the semantic system as an interface level of the conceptual system CS that translates conceptual representations into a format that is accessible by language. The analysis I put forward does not treat the make up of this level as idiosyncratic, but subsumes it under a unified notion of linguistic interfaces. This allows us to understand core aspects of the linguistic-conceptual interface as an instance of a general pattern underlying the correlation of linguistic and non-linguistic structures. By doing so, the model aims to provide a broader perspective onto the distinction between and interaction of conceptual and linguistic processes and the correlation of semantic and syntactic structures.

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Author:Heike WieseORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1150627
URL:http://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/germanistik-07/Publikationen/Wiese2004_Semantics.pdf
ISBN:978-3-11-017902-6
Parent Title (German):Trends in linguistics / Studies and monographs ; 152, Mediating between concepts and grammar / ed. by Holden Härtl ; Heike Tappe
Publisher:Berlin ; New York
Place of publication:Mouton de Gruyter
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2008/10/27
Year of first Publication:2003
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/04/26
GND Keyword:Semantik
Page Number:26
First Page:197
Last Page:222
Source:http://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/germanistik-07/Publikationen/Wiese2004_Semantics.pdf ; (in:) Holden Härtl, Heike Tappe: Mediating between Concepts and Language. - Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter [Trends in Linguistics 152], S.197-222
HeBIS-PPN:225412403
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht