Sitting, standing, and lying in frames: a frame-based approach to posture verbs

摘要: Posture verbs which allow for an extended locative use, such as sit, stand and lie, make reference to specific parts of the localized object, orientation prominent object axes positional information, are perceived by means cognitive modules gestalt recognition spatial perception. These properties render posture excellent investigation cognition language. This paper analyzes three basic German (sitzen 'sit', stehen 'stand' liegen 'lie') in terms frame representations. It turns out that frames can serve a highly flexible device decompositional analyses is at same time cognitively plausible knowledge representation format.