For each date in the Syllabus, read the material specified for that date.

Basic text: John Taylor, Linguistic Categorization, 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Additional required readings:

1. Bolinger, Dwight. Mind in the grip of Language. From Aspects of Language. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975, pp.

2. Ullman, Stephen. Synonymy; Ambiguity. Chapters 6 and 7 of Semantics: An introduction to the science of meaning. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962, pp. 141-192.

3. Tyler, Stephen A. Order out of chaos. In Cognitive Anthropology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, pp. 6-13.

4. Lehrer, Adrienne. Semantic fields. In Semantic fields and lexical structure. Amsterdam & London: North Holland Publishing. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., 1974, pp. 15-35.

5. Bierwisch, Manfred. Semantics. In New Horizons in Linguistics, ed. by John Lyons. Hammondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1970, pp. 166-184.

6. Fillmore, Charles. On the organization of semantic information in the lexicon. In Papers from the parasession on the lexicon. Chicago Linguistic Society, ed. by Donka Farkas, Wesley Jacobsen, and Karol Todrys. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society (Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago), 1978, pp. 165-173.

7. Fillmore, Charles. An alternative to checklist theories of meaning. In Proceedings of the first annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, ed. by Cathy Cogen et al. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, Dept. of Linguistics, U.C. Berkeley, 1975, pp. 123-131.

8. Clark, Eve V. and Herbert H. Clark. Universals, relativity, and language processing. In Universals of human language, ed. by Joseph H. Greenberg, Vol. I. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978, pp. 225-277. (Reprinted from Psychology and Language by Eve V. Clark and Herbert H. Clark, Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, 1977.)

9. Wierzbicka, Anna. Cups and mugs: The semantics of simple artifacts. In Lexicography and conceptual analysis. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Karoma Publishers, 1985, pp. 1-40.

10. Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Concepts we live by; The Systematicity of metaphorical concepts; Highlighting and hiding; Orientational metaphors. In Metaphors we live by Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. 3-21.

11. Talmy, Leonard. Lexicalization patterns: Semantic structure in lexical forms. In Timothy Shopen, ed., Language typology and syntactic description. Vol. 3, Grammatical categories and the lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 57-76 and 102-125.

12. Ullman, Stephen. Meaning change. Chapter 8 of Semantics: An introduction to the science of meaning, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962, pp. 193-235.

13. Traugott, Elizabeth. On regularity in semantic change. In Journal of literary semantics 14. Institute of Languages and Linguistics, University of Kent at Canterbury, England: Julius Groos, 1985, pp. 155-173.

14. Langacker, Ronald. A view of linguistic semantics. In Topics in Cognitive Linguistics, ed. by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1988, pp. 49-90.

Supplementary readings (for review assignment):

a. Miller, George, and Christiane Fellbaum. Semantic networks of English. In Lexical and conceptual semantics, ed. by Beth Levin and Steven Pinker. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1991, pp. 197-229.

b. Katz, J.J. and J. Fodor.

c. Bolinger, Dwight. The Atomization of Meaning. Language, 1965.

d. Rosch, Eleanor. Principles of categorization. In Cognition and categorization, ed. by E. Rosch and B. Lloyd. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1978, pp. 27-48.

e. Turner, Mark. Image schemas. Excerpt from The Literary Mind, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, pp. 17-32.

f. Lakoff George. Case Study 2: Over. In Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 416-461.

g. Palmer, F.R. Logic and Language.

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