It is probably no exaggeration to say that most contemporary grammatical frameworks take perception, thought, and language to be only tangentially, and not directly, related to one another. In the world view of such theories, these three pillars of the human mind constitute quite different types of knowledge and therefore belong, at least in theory, to distinct parts of our meticulously tidy co...

The Chomskyan revolution in linguistics in the 1950s in essence turned linguistics into a branch of cognitive science (and ultimately biology) by both changing the linguistic landscape and forcing a radical change in cognitive science to accommodate linguistics as many of us conceive of it today. More recently Chomsky has advanced the boldest version of his naturalistic approach to language by ...

1 Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA 2 Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 3 Cognitive Science Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 4 Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA 5 Department of Psychology, University of California, ...

The aim of this paper is to reconsider certain assumptions about conceptual structure which have become influential in recent Cognitive Science and which are associated in particular with the Cognitive Linguistics research agenda. I will outline three areas within the Cognitive Linguistics theory of concepts which seem to create some difficulties in their present formulation: the 'embodied cogn...