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Cognitive Modeling and Verbal Semantics - A Representational Framework Based on UML (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
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Cognitive Modeling and Verbal Semantics - A Representational Framework Based on UML (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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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
compositionalsemanticsare 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 insemantics, 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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