Publications
Publication details [#12819]
Pinker, Steven and Alan Price. 1999. The Nature of Human Concepts: Evidence from an Unusual Source. In Jackendoff, Ray S., Paul Bloom and Karen Wynn. Language, Logic, and Concepts. Essays in Memory of John Macnamara. MIT Press. pp. 221–261.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The notions of category membership and family resemblance are applied to English past tense forms. It is concluded that, while regular verbs feature classical category properties, irregular verbs are better described in terms of family resemblance.