Empirical methods in cognitive linguistics
Abstract
One of the fundamental consequences of the boom in linguistic technologies is that they have revealed the complexity of the linguistic phenomenon and the need to develop thorough and interdisciplinary knowledge regarding all aspects of language. To move forward, empirical and joint work by linguists, psychologists, neurologists and IT specialists is needed. In particular, one of the main problems that language technologies come across is that they have to settle the intrinsic ambiguity in languages, as is the case of the ambiguity with polysemic verbs. Therefore, we need to have a set of formal criteria to identify and discern verbal meanings. In this article, we will be presenting the lexical aspect or Aktionsart as one of the key criteria for establishing verbal meanings.
Keywords
Aktionsart; cognitive linguistics; empirical methods; linguistic technologies; polysemy; psycholinguistic experiment; verbal processing
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