Frames and Concept Types: Applications in Language and Philosophy

A. Introduction to Frames and Concept Types. 1. General Introduction by Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald & Wiebke Petersen. 2. Evidence for Frames from Human Language by Sebastian Löbner. 3. From Features via Frames to Spaces: Modeling Scientific Conceptual Change without Incommensurability or Aprioricity by Frank Zenker.- B. Frame Analysis of Changes in Scientific Concepts. 4. Reconstructing Scientific Theory Change by Means of Frames by Gerhard Schurz & Ioannis Votsis. 5. Interests in Conceptual Changes: a Frame Analysis by Xiang Chen.- C. Event Frames and Lexical Decomposition. 6. FrameNet, Frame Structure, and the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Rainer Osswald & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 7. The Deep Lexical Semantics of Event Words by Jerry R. Hobbs & Niloofar Montazeri.- D. Properties, Frame Attributes and Adjectives. 8. Distinguishing Properties and Relations in the Denotation of Adjectives: an Empirical Investigation by Matthias Hartung & Anette Frank. 9. Why Chocolate Eggs can Taste Old but not Oval: a Frame-Theoretic Analysis of Inferential Evidentials by Wiebke Petersen & Thomas Gamerschlag.- E. Frames in Concept Composition. 10. A Frame Approach to Metonymical Processes in some Common Types of German Word Formation by Daniel Schulzek. 11. Concept Composition in Frames - Focusing on Genitive Constructions by Wiebke Petersen & Tanja Osswald. F. Nominal Concept Types and Determination. 12. Definitely Not Possessed? Possessive Suffixes with Definiteness Marking Function by Doris Gerland. 13. Definite Article Asymmetries and Concept Types: Semantic and Pragmatic Uniqueness by Albert Ortmann. 14. The Indefiniteness of Definiteness by Barbara Abbott. 15. Nominal Concept Types in German fictional Texts by Christian Horn & Nicolas Kimm