SEMANTIC TYPOLOGY AND SPATIAL CONCEPTUALIZATION

This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and genetically varied set of languages. In the linguist ic analysis, we focus on the ways in which propositions may be functio nally equivalent across the linguistic communities while nonetheless r epresenting semantically quite distinctive frames of reference. Runnin g nonlinguistic experiments on subjects from these language communitie s, we find that a population's cognitive frame of reference correlates with the linguistic frame of reference within the same referential do main.