The aim of this article is to explore to what extent the rule of economics commonly known as Gresham's law ("bad money drives out good money") can be extrapolated to verbal language ("bad concepts ...

Mikhail V. Blagosklonny and Arthur B. Pardee in their Concepts essay “Unearthing the gems” (Nature 416, 373; 2002) discuss the emergence of 'conceptual biology' — the iterative process of analysing ...

Langacker, during this period, began work on his theory of Cognitive Grammar, then dubbed "space grammar." Lakoff was working on a related approach to grammar that came to be dubbed Construction ...

This paper presents an algorithm for comparing the structure of content within texts based on mathematical notions derived from graph theory and semantic notions of the conceptual parse. This ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...