A linguistic ontology of mode: the use of locations in spatial language

Authors:
Sander Lestrade
Affiliations:
Research group Sprachkontakt und Sprachvergleich, Germany,SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universät Bremen, Germany
Venue:
SC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Spatial Cognition VIII
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper discusses the linguistic ontology of mode (also known as directionality). It is argued that mode is best analyzed in terms of temporally linked locations and that our understanding of a corresponding path of motion probably follows from the conceptual enrichment of the semantics of a motion expression.