Topic List and Readings
Readings not available electronically will be available for pickup
from the AI office in Pratt 283 one week before the class in which
they are covered.
"Chapters" below refer to chapters of the book Cognitive Linguistics, by
William Croft and D. Alan Cruse, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Overview of the list of topics:
Jan 5: Intro to Cognitive Linguistics. Sections of Chapters 1-4.
Jan 12: Polysemy and Sense Boundaries. Chapter 5.
Jan 19: Hyponymy and Meronymy. Chapter 6.
Jan 26: Metaphor. Chapter 8.
Feb 2: Construction Grammar. Chapter 9, 10.1.
Feb 9: Usage-Based Model: Frequency in the Grammar. Chapter 11.
Feb 16 and Feb 23: No class.
Mar 2:
Reading: John Newman and Sally Rice (2004). Patterns of usage for English SIT,
STAND, and LIE: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus
linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics 15:3, Pages 351-396.
Mar 9: (two readings)
1. Reading: Eleanor Rosch (1978).
Principles of Categorization. From Readings in
Cognitive Science, a Perspective from Psychology and Artificial
Intelligence, Allan Collins & Edward E. Smith, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, San Mateo, California, 1988, pp 312-322
2. Reading: George Lakoff (1987). Chapter
4. Idealized Cognitive Models. From Women, Fire, and Dangerous
Things, University of Chicago Press. Handed out on paper.
Mar 16:
Reading: Morgan, Pamela S. (1997)
Figuring out Figure out: Metaphor and the semantics of the English
verb-particle construction. Cognitive Linguistics 8, 327-57. Handed
out on paper.
Mar 23:
Reading: Bowerman and Choi (2003). Space under Construction:
Language-Specific Spatial Categorization in First Language
Acquisition. In Gentner, D., and Meadow, S.G., Eds., Language in
Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Cognition. Cambridge: MIT
Press.
Mar 30:
1. Reading: Patrick Saint-Dizier (2005). PrepNet:
a Framework for Describing Prepositions: Preliminary Investigation
Results. In Sixth International Workshop on Computational
Semantics (IWCS'05). Tilberg, Netherlands.
2. Reading: Patrick Olivier and Jun-ichi Tsujii
(1994). A
Computational View of the Cognitive Semantics of Spatial
Prepositions. In 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL'94). Las Cruces, NM.
Apr 6: Final discussion.