A formal semantics for iconic spatial gestures

Authors:
Gianluca Giorgolo
Affiliations:
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of the 17th Amsterdam colloquium conference on Logic, language and meaning
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this paper I describe a formal semantics for iconic spatial gestures. My claim is that the meaning of iconic gestures can be captured with an appropriate mathematical theory of space and the familiar notion of intersecting modification. I support this claim with the analysis of some examples extracted from an annotated corpus of natural humanhuman interaction.