Toward a Cognitive Semantics

By L. Talmy. 2003

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Understanding natural language descriptions of physical phenomena (2004, methodology): “For example, Talmy’s work, relating the structure of language to fundamental aspects of cognition such as space, time, and causality (Talmy, 2000), as well as the work on representations for event structures (Davidson & Harman, 1972; Parsons, 1990), situation semantics (Barwise & Perry, 1983) and th”
Explaining Embodied Cognition Results (2012, background): “Len Talmy (1983, 1988, 2000a, 2000b) showed that spatial relation terms, across many languages, are based on widespread if not universal primitives that require reference to the body.”
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought: The neural theory of metaphor (2009, unknown): “Len Talmy (2000) has observed that spatial relations in human languages preserve topology as well.”