Do sensorimotor processes have reflexes in sentence syntax as well as sentence semantics?
Predicate logic has proved a very useful tool for the expression of theories of natural language semantics. Hurford's suggestion that predicate-argument structures mirror certain properties of the human sensorimotor architecture can be seen as an explanation of why this is so. Although I support this view, I think that the correspondences that Hurford draws between linguistic and sensorimotor structures not only involve natural language semantics, but include some elements of natural language syntax as well.
Knott
Alistair
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Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand alik@cs.otago.ac.nz http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/alik/