ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Linguistic categories serve as cognitive tools for humans to organize, understand, and navigate the complex world around them. Categorizers - elements that formally mark lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives - belong to the core building blocks of the mental lexicon. However, it is still unclear how and why new categories and categorizers arise and how their function changes over time. Bridging the gap between disciplines, the EVOCAT project aims to unravel this puzzle by uncovering the underlying principles that govern the formation, representation, and evolution of linguistic categories. Based on a large-scale quantitative and qualitative analysis of categorization…
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