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Mediating between concepts and language - Processing structures

Tappe, Heike
Härtl, Holden

One of the main functions of language is to abstract over complex non-verbal message structures. The language system generates highly compact linguistic material which, however, must still enable the recipient of the corresponding linear grammatical sequence to fully infer the intended message. To guarantee this a device is required which links concepts and grammar in a systematic fashion by negotiating the requirements of both the generalized linguistic structures and the underlying conceptual complexes. Typically, this mediating function is instantiated by an interface. Any interface device has to satisfy procedural requirements because linguistic structure building must accommodate the fact that different types of information are available at different points in time.

Sponsor
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) projects "Conceptualization processes in language production" (HA 1237-10) and "Conceptual transfer of situations into verbal meaning and the status of thematic roles" (OL 101-2) of the DFG priority program Language production and the project Semantic interfaces: copula-predicative constructions at ZAS (Berlin).
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@inbook{doi:10.17170/kobra-202105183917,
  author    ={Tappe, Heike and Härtl, Holden},
  title    ={Mediating between concepts and language - Processing structures},
  keywords ={400 and Sprachsystem and Kognitive Linguistik and Sprachproduktion and Verbalisierung},
  copyright  ={https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/},
  language ={en},
  publisher  ={Universität Kassel},
  year   ={2003}
}