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| 09.10.07 | Introduction; Folk semantics; overview | Partee, B. (1995). Lexical semantics and compositionality. In Gleitman, L.R. & Liberman, M., An invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol.1: Language. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 311-360. | podcast | 16.10.07 | Word meaning and categorization | podcast | 23.10.07 | Object reference and Semantic features | Cruse, D.A. (1995 [1986]). Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p.49-74. | podcast | 30.10.07 | Prototypes revisited | Rosch, E. (2004). Principles of categorization. In Aarts, B. (Ed.), Fuzzy grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 91-108. | podcast | 06.11.07 | Nouniness/verbiness | Taylor, J.R. (2003). Linguistic categorization. Oxford: OUP, ch. 11 (200-221). | podcast | 13.11.07 | A theory of aspectuality | Rothstein, S. (2004). Structuring events. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, ch. 1. | podcast | 20.11.07 | Lexical aspect and verb meaning | Talmy, L. (1985). Lexicalization patterns: semantic structure in lexical forms. In Shopen, T. (Ed.) Language typology and syntactic descriptions III: grammatical categories and the lexicon. Cambridge: CUP. Ungerer, F. & Schmid, H.-J. (2006). An introduction to cognitive linguistics. Harlow: Pearson/Longman, pp. 237-255. | sorry | 27.11.07 | Manner, motion and path | Choi, S. & Bowerman, M. (1995). Learning to express motion events in English and Korean. In Levin, B. & Pinker, S. (Eds.), Lexical and Conceptual Semantics. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, p.83-122. | podcast | 04.12.07 | The acquisition of motion events | Talmy, L. (2003). Toward a cognitive semantics. Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, p.21-58. | podcast | 11.12.07 | Cognitive semantics | Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought (video, ted.com) | sorry | 18.12.07 | Cognitive semantics | podcast | 08.01.08 | Organization and principles of the mental lexicon | podcast | 15.01.08 | Lexicalization patterns | podcast | 22.01.08 | Lexical Functional Grammar – basics | 29.01.08 | LFG and Generative approaches |
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Boroditsky, L. (2001). Does language shape thought? Mandarin and English Speakers’ conceptions of time. Cognitive Psychology 43, 1-22.
Boroditsky, L. (2000). Metaphoric Structuring: Understanding time through spatial Metaphors. Cognition 75, 1-8.
Coulson, S. & Oakley, T. (2000). Blending basics. Cognitive Linguistics, 11-3/4, 175-196.
Cruse, D.A. (1995 [1986]). Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cruse, D.A. (2004). Meaning in language. An introduction to semantics and pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dalrymple, M. (1999). Semantics and syntax in lexical functional grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Dirven, R. & Ralf (2002). Metaphor and metonymy in comparison and contrast. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Goddard, C. (1997). The universal syntax of semantic primitives. Language Sciences 19, 197-207.
Gutiérrez-Rexach, J. (2003). Semantics: Critical concepts in linguistics. London: Routledge.
Jackendoff, R. (2002). Foundations of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kövecses, Z. & Szabó, P. (1996). Idioms : A view from Cognitive Semantics. Applied Linguistics, 17-3, 326-355.
Langlotz, A. (2006). Idiomatic creativity. A cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Levin, B. & Pinker, S. (1992). Lexical and Conceptual Semantics. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Levin, B. & Rappaport Hovav, M. (1995). Unaccusativity: At the syntax-lexical semantics interface. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Levinson, S.C. (1989). Primer for the field investigation of spatial description and conception. Pragmatics 2 (1), 5-47.
Lopez Rua, P. (2003). Birds, colours and prepositions. The theory of categorization and its applications in linguistics. München: LINCOM.
Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L. (2001). Motion events in language and cognition. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Rothstein, S. (2004). Structuring events: A study in semantics of lexical aspects. Oxford: Blackwell.
Saeed, J. (2003). Semantics. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.