RT Book, Section
T1 Spacetime in language
A1 Bedinelli Silvagni, Federico
A2 Stefanov, Anguel S.
A2 Giovanelli, Marco
AB This paper is devoted to inner aspect (i.e. the spatiotemporal information encoded in words) and its relation to spacetime. It constitutes a first attempt to answer basic questions of linguistics by taking advantage of the science and philosophy of spacetime. The paper presents a long-standing problem in linguistics (namely, the definition and the study of event predicates) and illustrates how it can be addressed by bringing to linguistics the idea of events as spacetime points that arises from the 4D understanding of physical world. I propose that the aspectual primitive of event predicates is a spacetime point and I show that this approach constitutes a new and powerful insight for linguistics, while paving the way for a promising connection between cognitive science and the fields of physics and philosophy of spacetime.
PB Minkowski Institute Press
SN 978-1-927763-46-9 (softcover)
SN 978-1-927763-47-6 (ebook)
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95690
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95690
LA eng
NO This research has been funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, project FFI 2014-52015-P.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025