This article surveys the state of the art in the field of semantic universals. We examine
potential semantic universals in three areas:(i) the lexicon,(ii) semantic “glue”(functional …

What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages
with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the …

In this article we develop a semantic typology of gradable predicates, with special emphasis
on deverbal adjectives. We argue for the linguistic relevance of this typology by …

A fundamental aspect of human cognition is the ability to parse our constantly unfolding
experience into meaningful representations of dynamic events and to communicate about …

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested
in the study of verb meanings. Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual …

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the
meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly …

This paper provides a new perspective on the options available to languages for encoding
directed motion events. Talmy (2000) introduces an influential two-way typology, proposing …

The syntactic structure of prepositional phrases is quite rich, as has been demonstrated in
numerous recent detailed studies of individual languages. In this chapter I present an …

This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in
language: things that we might expect to be able to say but can't. For instance, why can we …

This article offers an account of the mass/count distinction and the semantics of count nouns,
and argues that it is not based on an atomic/non-atomic nor on a homogeneous/non …