Abstract

The aim of this essay is to direct attention to some structural problems of a phenomenology of language connected with a theory of the presentation and in particular of the perceptive presentation. More specifically, I shall propose a preliminary analysis of language, defined as a cognitive system, based on a non-linguistic primitive (the structure of the presentation) within a figural original semantic field. This field takes the form of a grammar of primitive relations in which syntax and semantics have yet to be separated• Here, in particular, I shall analyse only a minor part of it, and in particular the morphogenesis of adjectives on the basis of both experimental phenomenology and cognitive semantics. ~ I begin with a strong assumption: there is no perfect language, nor is there a

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