Space and motion being now a rather well studied topic, it is likely to offer an appropriate field for an in-depth analysis of the relations between semantics and syntax. After outlining the theoretical framework used for ...

Claude Vandeloise's work on space in language has contributed very significantly to the emergence and development of this semantic field. During a first period (1980-1994), the research of Vandeloise mostly focused on ...

The purpose of this critical note is to present the existing studies on abduction and their applications in different fields such as artificial intelligence, logic programming, diagnosis, natural language studies and others. ...

Since its formulation by Whorf at the beginning of the 1940s and the posthumous publication of a selection of the author’s writings in 1956, the '"linguistic relativity principle'" has known a variety of fortunes. This ...