Cognitive Modeling and Verbal Semantics
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Cognitive Modeling and Verbal Semantics

A Representational Framework Based on UML

  1. 463 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cognitive Modeling and Verbal Semantics

A Representational Framework Based on UML

About this book

This book presents a unique approach to the semantics of verbs. It develops and specifies a decompositional representation framework for verbal semantics that is based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the graphical lingua franca for the design and modeling of object-oriented systems in computer science. The new framework combines formal precision with conceptual flexibility and allows the representation of very complicated details of verbal meaning, using a mixture of graphical elements as well as linearized constructs. Thereby, it offers a solution for different semantic problems such as context-dependency and polysemy. The latter, for instance, is demonstrated in one of the two well-elaborated applications of the framework within this book, the investigation of the polysemy of German setzen.

Besides the formal specification of the framework, the book comprises a cognitive interpretation of important modeling elements, discusses general issues connected with the framework such as dynamic and static aspects of verbal meanings, questions of granularity, and general constraints applying to verbal semantics. Moreover, first steps towards a compositional semantics are undertaken, and a new verb classification based on this graphical approach is proposed.

Since the framework is graphical in nature, the book contains many annotated figures, and the framework's modeling elements are illustrated by example diagrams. Not only scholars working in the field of linguistics, in particular in semantics, will find this book illuminating because of its new graphical approach, but also researchers of cognitive science, computational linguistics and computer science in general will surely appreciate it.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. List of figures
  3. List of tables
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 2. Survey of research positions
  6. 2.1. Lexical semantics of verbs
  7. 2.2. Approaches to decompositional semantics
  8. 2.3. Semantic primitives and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage
  9. 3. Introducing the UER
  10. 3.1. A rigorous cognitive approach towards verbal semantics
  11. 3.2. Foundation of the UER
  12. 3.3. General characteristics
  13. 3.4. Diagram elements
  14. 4. Basic concepts of the UER
  15. 4.1. General extension mechanisms
  16. 4.2. Static structure concepts
  17. 4.3. Dynamic structure concepts
  18. 5. Advanced concepts of the UER
  19. 5.1. Aggregation
  20. 5.2. Transition
  21. 5.3. Black box
  22. 5.4. Eventity frame
  23. 5.5. Template
  24. 5.6. Subcore state
  25. 6. Interpretation of UER concepts
  26. 6.1. Eventity frames: Central cognitive units
  27. 6.2. Enumerations: Recurring cognitive categories
  28. 6.3. Attributes: Semantic features
  29. 6.4. Classes: Categories
  30. 6.5. Participant types: Referencing ontological categories
  31. 6.6. Participant roles: Referencing prototypical semantic roles
  32. 6.7. Associations / aggregations: Participant relationships
  33. 6.8. Generalizations: Inheritance relationships
  34. 6.9. Simple states / transitions: Basic eventity types
  35. 6.10. Events / cause-signal: Triggers and causation
  36. 6.11. Submachine / subcore states: Conceptual structuring
  37. 6.12. Templates: Linguistic description device
  38. 6.13. Stereotypes: Clusters of recurring characteristics
  39. 6.14. Properties: Semantic specifications
  40. 6.15. Constraints: Semantic restrictions
  41. 6.16. Unspecified elements: Underspecification
  42. 7. General issues
  43. 7.1. Constraints for representing verbal semantics
  44. 7.2. Static vs. dynamic aspects of verbal semantics
  45. 7.3. Modeling granularity
  46. 7.4. Semantic primitives
  47. 7.5. Towards a compositional semantics
  48. 8. Application I: Eventity classification
  49. 8.1. States: States, acts, and activities
  50. 8.2. Transitions: Change eventities
  51. 8.3. Cause-signals: Interactional eventities
  52. 8.4. Overview and outlook
  53. 9. Application II: The polysemy of German setzen
  54. 9.1. English put and German verbs of position
  55. 9.2. The prototypical reading of setzen
  56. 9.3. Prototypical reflexivity
  57. 9.4. Extensions of the prototypical case
  58. 9.5. Recapitulation of results
  59. 10. Epilog
  60. A. The notational elements of the UER
  61. A.1. General extension mechanisms
  62. A.2. Static structure elements
  63. A.3. Dynamic structure elements
  64. A.4. Eventity frame and eventity frame template
  65. A.5. Miscellaneous
  66. Notes
  67. References
  68. Index of names
  69. UER index
  70. Subject index