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  1. Does the mind care about whether a word is abstract or concrete? Why concreteness is probably not a natural kind.Guido Löhr - forthcoming - Mind and Language.
    Many psychologists currently assume that there is a psychologically real distinction to be made between concepts that are abstract and concepts that are concrete. It is for example largely agreed that concepts and words are more easily processed if they are concrete. Moreover, it is assumed that this isbecausethese words and concepts are concrete. It is thought that interesting generalizations can be made about certain conceptsbecausethey are concrete. I argue that we have surprisingly little reason to believe that the abstract‐concrete (...)
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  • An assessment of the fourth law of Kuryłowicz: does prototypicality of meaning affect language change?Isabeau De Smet - 2023 - Cognitive Linguistics 34 (2):261-296.
    According to the (in)famous fourth law of Kuryłowicz (K4), when a morphological doublet arises in a language, the newer form becomes associated with the prototypical, basic meaning, while the old form takes a secondary meaning. This paper takes a first attempt at a more thorough inquiry of K4 to assess whether prototypicality of meaning has an effect on morphological change. Three studies on historical Dutch are taken on: -enversus -splurals, the apocope of schwa and the apocope of -de.The effects of (...)
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