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What Makes Humans Unique? (II): Six Candidates for What Makes Human Cognition...
What makes humans unique? This never-ending debate has sparked a long list of proposals and counter-arguments and, to quote from a recent article on this topic, “a similar fate most likely awaits some...
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Language, Thought, and Space (IV): Comparing Different Cultures
In my last post on the relationship between language, thought and (thinking and talking about) space I wrote that one of the most interesting, but also one of the most difficult questions is to what...
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Language, Thought, and Space (V): Comparing Different Species
As I’ve talked about in my last posts (see I, II, III, and IV) different cultures employ different coordinate systems or Frames of References (FoR) when talking about space. FoRs “serve to specify...
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Evolang Previews: Cognitive Construal, Mental Spaces, and the Evolution of...
Evolang is busy this year – 4 parallel sessions and over 50 posters. We’ll be posting a series of previews to help you decide what to go and see. If you’d like to post a preview of your work, get in...
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PLM2012 Coverage: Dirk Geeraerts: Corpus Evidence for Non-Modularity
The first plenary talk at this year’s Poznań Linguistic Meeting was by Dirk Geeraerts, who is professor of linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. In his talk, he discussed the possibility...
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