Interpreting motion : grounded representations for spatial language /
Interpreting Motion presents an integrated perspective on how language structures constrain concepts of motion and how the world shapes the way motion is linguistically expressed. Natural language allows for efficient communication of elaborate descriptions of movement without requiring a precise sp...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Explorations in language and space ;
no. 5. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Interpreting Motion presents an integrated perspective on how language structures constrain concepts of motion and how the world shapes the way motion is linguistically expressed. Natural language allows for efficient communication of elaborate descriptions of movement without requiring a precise specification of the motion. Interpreting Motion is the first book to analyze the semantics of motion expressions in terms of the formalisms of qualitative spatial reasoning. It shows how motion descriptions in language are mapped to trajectories of moving entities based on qualitative spatio-temporal. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191632501 0191632503 1280595213 9781280595219 |