Phy-inside-psych adjectives

Unergative Adjectives and Psych Verbs

The idea that the verb phrase is a layered constituent has been around in the literature for some time, e. shell theory plays an important role as well. In this paper I will argue that a particular interpretation of shell theory may provide insight into long standing problems such as the nature of syntactic ergativity and the structure of psychological verbs. Let us consider a VP–structure with...

Semantic Structures of Polysemous Psych-adjectives in Korean: A Conceptual Semantics Approach

Although researches have been conducted on the polysemous nature of some Korean psych-adjectives, no consensus has been made on the criteria used for evaluating the polysemy. Furthermore, few formalizations (semantic structures) have been proposed for the polysemous phenomena. The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to propose new criteria for distinguishing polysemous psych-adjectives from mo...

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2007 - Psych Research (txt)

Perspectives on human spatial cognition: Memory, navigation, and environmental learning (Michel Denis & Jack M. Loomis) Humans do not switch between path knowledge and landmarks when learning a new environment (Patrick Foo, Andrew Duchon, William H. Warren, Jr., & Michael J. Tarr) Using geometry to specify location: Implications for spatial coding in children and nonhuman animals (Stella F. Lou...

Psych-Aetiology Graph (PAG)

This paper will introduce the ‘Psych-Aetiology Graph’, PAG for short. The concept of PAG is devised by the author as a way of conceptualising/formalising/summarising the client’s condition. The term ‘Psych-Aetiology’ is used to encompass all the Bio-Psycho-Social factors contributing to the client’s presenting condition. Also, the graph has no arithmetic value and is not based on any particular...