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Neoclassical Concepts
Author(s) -
Leben Derek
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/mila.12071
Subject(s) - possession (linguistics) , epistemology , semantics (computer science) , linguistics , cognitive science , computer science , psychology , philosophy , programming language
Linguistic theories of lexical semantics support a Neoclassical Theory of concepts, where entities like CAUSE , STATE , and MANNER serve as necessary conditions for the possession of individual event concepts. Not all concepts have a neoclassical structure, and whether or not words participate in regular linguistic patterns such as verbal alternations will be proposed as a probe for identifying whether their corresponding concepts do indeed have such structure. I show how the Neoclassical Theory supplements existing theories of concepts and supports a version of analyticity and conceptual analysis.