Prototype and Category Theory

Books

Goddard, Cliff. Semantic Analysis, Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. One of the seminal works on semantic primes.

Horwich, Paul. Meaning. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-823824-X.

Lakoff, George. Women, Fire and Dangerous Things. New York: Basic Books, 1990. Prototype theory: how we form categories from exemplars.

Pierce, Benjamin C. Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.

Taylor, John R. Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic Theory, Second Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-870012-1.

Magazine and Web Articles

Atran, Scott. 3-Dec-01. Folk Biology and the Anthropology of Science: Cognitive Universals and Cultural Particulars. Web article: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.atran.html. Folk biology studies the way everyday people construct their own taxonomies of living things, and what that reveals about our innate categorizing.

Goddard, Cliff. Jun-03. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Homepage. Web article: http://www.une.edu.au/arts/LCL/disciplines/linguistics/nsmpage.htm. This is where the semantic primes of language are recorded.

Green, Stuart P. 19-Jan-01. Prototype Theory and the Classification of Offenses in a Revised Model Penal Code: A General Approach to the Special Part. Web article: http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/bclr.htm. Use of prototype theory.

Hofstede, A. H. M., Lippe, E. A Category Theory Approach to Conceptual Data Modeling. RAIRO Theoretical Informatics and Applications 30(1):31–79, August 1996.

Holt, Jim. Whose Idea Is It, Anyway? Lingua Franca Sept/Oct 1994. Available at http://www.linguafranca.com/Archive/whose.html.

Humphreys, Rebecca. 23-May-96. Categorisation and Prototypes. Web article: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Explaining.Mind96/0180.html. More on prototype theory.

Hunn, Eugene S. 3-Dec-01. Evidence for the Precocious Acquisition of Plant Knowledge by Zapotec Children. Web article: http://faculty.washington.edu/hunn/MZPA.htm.

Kripke, Saul. 5-Dec-01. About the Author of Wittenstein on Rules and Private Language. Web article: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~'witt.kauthor.html.

Kripke, Saul. 5-Dec-01. Phil2100 Lecture 7. Web article: http://krypton.mnsu.edu/witt/kauthor.html.

Rae, Amadeo M. 25-Nov-98. Folk Mammalogy of the Northern Pimans. Web article: http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/samples/sam1206.htm. More folk biology.

Richards, I. A. Spring 1998. Proper meaning Web article: http://www.colorado.edu/comunication/meta-discourses/Paper/App_Papers/Cahill.htm.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. 5-Dec-01. Tractatus Logico Philosophicus. Web article: http://www.kfs.org/~jonathan/witt/tlph.html.

Zitzen, Michaela. 4-Dec-01. On the Efficiency of Prototype Theoretical Semantics. Web article: http://ang3-11.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/-ang3/LANA/Zitzen.html.

27-Dec-01. Ladwig Wittgenstein: Analysis of Language. Web article: http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/6s.htm.

3-Dec-01. Ethnobiological Classification: Categorization. Lecture 12. Web article: http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/peopleplants/regions/thailand/lecture12.htm.

6-Oct-02. Basic English Word Lists. Web page: http://ogden.basicenglish.org/bewords.html. Basic English is a movement to try to find the 600 "basic" concepts in English on which all other concepts are based.