Representational limitations of the one-place predicate
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Published on: February 19, 2018
1Institut des Sciences Cognitives, 69675 BRON Cedex, France dominey@isc.cnrs.fr http://www.isc.cnrs.fr.
Abstract:
In the context of Hurford's claim that "some feature of language structure maps onto a feature of primitive mental representations," I will argue that Hurford's focus on 1-place predicates as the basis of the "mental representations of situations in the world" is problematic, particularly with respect to spatiotemporal events. A solution is proposed.
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