Grdenfors
4 posts tagged with “Grdenfors”
Research Updates
Case Grammar and Service Semantics: Toward a Richer Vocabulary for Action
In the previous post, I argued that the "good services are verbs" heuristic, while valuable, is incomplete. Verbs alone cannot capture the material infrastructure, institutional rules, practice...
When Nouns Surface as Verbs: Denominal Conversion and Service Naming
The previous post argued that the "good services are verbs" heuristic, while valuable as a corrective to bureaucratic naming, obscures as much as it reveals. The noun/verb distinction in service...
Four Kinds of Event: Harel, Gärdenfors, Iqbal, and Burgess on What Happens in Services
This post was originally written in November 2024. It has since been revised to include cross-references to the companion Language, Frames, and Domain Understanding series - on case grammar,...
Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Meaning
The previous post surveyed competing frameworks for representing knowledge - distributed cognition, activity theory, social representations, prototype theory - and argued that Gärdenfors's conceptual...