Laure Vieu

List of John Benjamins publications for which Laure Vieu plays a role.

Title

The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition

Edited by Michel Aurnague, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu

[Human Cognitive Processing, 20] 2007. viii, 371 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Prévot, Laurent and Laure Vieu 2008 3. The moving right frontierConstraints in Discourse, Benz, Anton and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 53–66 | Article
This paper analyzes systematic cases of revision of the discourse structure entailing a modification of the right frontier. We show that the coordinating or subordinating nature of discourse relations plays a major role in this revision, examining in particular a relation typical in narratives,… read more
Aurnague, Michel, Maud Champagne-Lavau, Laure Vieu, Andrée Borillo, Philippe Muller, Jean-Luc Nespoulous and Laure Sarda 2007 Categorizing spatial entities with frontal orientation: The role of function, motion and saliency in the processing of the French Internal Localization Nouns avant/devantThe Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition, Aurnague, Michel, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu (eds.), pp. 153–175 | Article
This chapter presents the results froma pointing task that examined French adult’s processing of Internal Localization Nouns (ILNs), with particular attention to avant (‘front’) and devant (‘front surface’). Performance in this task shows that the parameters governing the frontal orientation(s)… read more
Aurnague, Michel, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu 2007 Introduction: Searching for the categorization of spatial entities in language and cognitionThe Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition, Aurnague, Michel, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Article
Vieu, Laure and Michel Aurnague 2007 Part-of relations, functionality and dependenceThe Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition, Aurnague, Michel, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu (eds.), pp. 307–336 | Article
That language hosts a multiplicity of part-whole relations is largely accepted, but no complete formal account is currently available. We first show how most distinctions between part-whole relations can be explained by considering the ontological categories of the arguments. We then focus on… read more