Current progress in linguistic theorizing is more and more informed by cross-linguistic (including cross-modal) investigation. Comparison of languages relies crucially on the concepts that can be coded with similar effort in all languages. These concepts are part of every language user's ontology, the network of cross-connected conceptualizations the mind uses in coping with the world.

Assuming that language comparability is rooted in the comparability of user ontologies, the idea of the present volume is to further instigate progress in linguistics by looking behind the interface with the conceptual-intentional system and asking a still underexplored question: How are ontological structures reflected in intra- and cross-linguistic regularities? This question defines the research program of ontology based linguistics or ontolinguistics.

Recent advances in the theory of language have been characterized by an emphasis on external explanatory adequacy and thus on relating language to other phenomena. The research program introduced in this volume adds a decisively distinct and fresh aspect to this emerging new contextualization of the field by bringing together insights from different areas, mainly linguistics, but also neuroscience, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. In providing these disciplines with a new common task, the exploration of the impact of ontological structures on linguistic regularities, the ontolinguistic approach promises to develop into a vital branch of cognitive science.

Documenting the beginnings, the book aims to instigate future interdisciplinary research in this area. It will be of interest to researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science in general.

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Ontolinguistics – An outline
Ontologies across disciplines
The emergence of a shared action ontology: Building blocks for a theory
Formal representation of concepts: The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology and its use in linguistics
Linguistic interaction and ontological mediation
Semantic primes and conceptual ontology
Using ‘Ontolinguistics’ for language description
Language as mind sharing device: Mental and linguistic concepts in a general ontology of everyday life
The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: A neural model
Postural categories and the classification of nominal concepts: A case study of Goemai
Spatial ‘on’ – ‘in’ categories and their prepositional codings across languages: Universal constraints on language specificity
Semantic categorizations and encoding strategies
Taxonomic and meronomic superordinates with nominal coding
Motion events in concept hierarchies: Identity criteria and French examples
On the ontological, conceptual, and grammatical foundations of verb classes
The ontological loneliness of verb phrase idioms
Relating ontological knowledge and internal structure of eventity concepts
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