Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology

• Introduction (Sebastian Löbner).- Part I: Pushing the boundaries of formal semantics.- Chapter 2. A compositional pluralist semantics for extensional and attitude Verbs (Kristina Liefke).- Chapter 3. Counting possible configurations (Manfred Krifka).- Chapter 4. Structure and ontology in nonlocal readings of adjectives (Marcin Morzycki).- Part II: Concept theory.- Chapter 5. How can semantics avoid the troubles with the analytic/synthetic distinction? (Roberto G. de Almeida).- Chapter 6. Linguistic relativity and flexibility of mental representations: Color terms in a frame based analysis (Leda Berio).- Chapter 7. Implicatures and naturalness (Igor Douven).- Chapter 8. Perception, types and frames (Robin Cooper).- Part III: Conceptualizing eventualities.- Chapter 9. An XMG account of multiplicity of meaning in derivation (Marios Andreou).- Chapter 10. Operationalizing the role of context in language variation: The role of perspective alignment in the Spanish imperfective domain (MartínFuchs).- Chapter 11. A frame-based analysis of verbal particles in Hungarian (Katalin Balogh).- Chapter 12. On the fictive reading of German steigen 'climb, rise' – A frame account (Thomas Gamerschlag).- Chapter 13. Cascades. Goldman’s level-generation, multilevel categorization of action, and multilevel verb semantics (Sebastian Löbner).- Part IV: Prototypes and probabilities.- Chapter 14. Modification and default inheritance (Corina Strößner).- Chapter 15. A frame-theoretic model of Bayesian category learning (Samuel Taylor).- Chapter 16. Extremes are typical – A game theoretical derivation (Robert van Rooij).- Chapter 17. Grading similarity (Carla Umbach).- Part V:  Cognition and psychology.- Chapter 18. Escitalopram restores reversal learning impairments in rats with lesions of orbital frontal cortex (David S. Tait).- Chapter 19. Rat ultrasonic vocalizations as social reinforcers – implications for a multilevel model of the cognitive representation of action and rats' socialworld (Tobias Kalenscher).- Chapter 20. Influence of manner adverbs on action verb processing (Jan Sieksmeyer).- Chapter 21. When do computations explain better (Silvano Zipoli Caiani).

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