Brain and the Lexicon The Neural Basis of Inferential and Referential Competence /

• Main Author: Calzavarini, Fabrizio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Brain and Mind, 15
• Subjects: Philosophy of mind.; Cognitive grammar.; Neuropsychology.; Philosophy of Mind.; Cognitive Linguistics.

This monograph offers a novel, neurocognitive theory concerning words and language. It explores the distinction between inferential and referential semantic competence. The former accounts for the relationship of words among themselves, the latter for the relationship of words to the world. The auth...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Formal semantics and the problem of word meaning
• Chapter 2. The structure of inferential competence
• Chapter 3. The structure of referential competence
• Chapter 4. Functional dissociation
• Chapter 5. Anatomical dissociation
• Chapter 6. The neural substrates of inferential and referential competence
• Chapter 7. Inferential and referential competence and the Embodied Framework
• Chapter 8. Dual pictures of semantic cognition?
• Chapter 9 Conclusions.