Leonard Talmy is an emeritus professor of
linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Ling ...
and
philosophy at the
University at Buffalo in
New York. He is known for his pioneering work in
cognitive linguistics, more specifically, in the relationship between
semantic and formal linguistic structures and the connections between semantic typologies and universals. He is also specialized in the study of
Yiddish and
Native American linguistics.
See also
*
Force Dynamics
*
Figure-Ground
*
Cognitive Linguistics
Books
* ''Toward a Cognitive Semantics'' (2000) -- two volumes
* ''The Targeting System of Language'' (The MIT Press, January 2018)
Published Articles
* "The Relation of Grammar to Cognition"
* "Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition"
* "How Language Structures Space"
* "Fictive Motion in Language and `Ception'"
* "Lexicalization Patterns"
* "The Representation of Spatial Structure in Spoken and Signed Languages: a Neural Model"
* "Recombinance in the Evolution of Language"
External links
* https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~talmy/talmy.html
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Linguists from the United States
Linguists of Yiddish
University at Buffalo alumni
Living people
Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society
Year of birth missing (living people)