Natural Language Ontology

Abstract

This chapter gives an outline of natural language ontology as a subdiscipline of both linguistics and philosophy. It distinguishes natural language ontology from both folk metaphysics and foundational metaphysics as well as other sorts of cognitive ontologies. It gives a characterization of the subject matter of natural language ontology drawing a distinction between core and periphery of language and argues that part of the constructional ontology reflected in natural language is in significant respects on a par with syntax (on the generative view).

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