Talk:Leonard Talmy

Edit request

 * Leonard Talmy has asked me to help update his page. Do I need any special permissions? Do you want his authorization in some way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by hilnay (talk • contribs)
 * @User:Hilnay : Absolutely not, we're an open encyclopedia that anyone can edit. You don't need authorization to edit one's page. It seems, however, that you have a conflict of interest, meaning you shouldn't edit the article directly but rather suggest edits here on the talk page using the -template. I've posted information to your talk page explaining how you should propose edits to this page. Please let me know on my user talk page if you need further help. NotAGenious (talk) 08:10, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't have a conflict of interest. I am a tech support volunteer helping Leonard Talmy with a number of issues. He asked me to update this page. He's blind, and I don't think his screen reader would be able to help him navigate this task! I can see everything and it is still opaque. He's given me the text he would like on the page --- where do I put it? Here? If the answer is yes, here is the first paragraph:

Leonard Talmy is Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy and Director Emeritus of the Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo in New York. Born on June 17, 1942, he received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972.

thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by hilnay (talk • contribs)

SPECIFIC TEXT TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR CURRENT TEXT Leonard Talmy is Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy and Director Emeritus of the Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo in New York. Born on June 17, 1942, he received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972.

He is a prominent American linguist who has helped found and develop the area of cognitive semantics. His research has covered typologies and universals of semantic structure; the interaction between semantic structure and lexical, morphological, and syntactic structure; the relation of this to discourse, diachrony, culture, and evolution; and the implications of all this material for conceptual organization and cognitive theory. His pioneering and innovative work has been highly influential globally, with over 35,000 citations of it.

His work was the basis for the first, second, and third "Talmyan Semantics Conference" in China in 2019, 2020, and 2021. He was the recipient of the 2012 Gutenberg Research Award and 10,000 Euro prize from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, for outstanding contributions to research in the area of linguistics. In 2011, he was honored as one of the three "Founding Fathers" of cognitive linguistics at the 10th Biannual Conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. And he was elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in its 2002 inaugural selection of Fellows.

Most of his published work can be found on his website: https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~talmy/talmy.html

Books[edit] * Toward a Cognitive Semantics (The MIT Press, 2000) -- two volumes * The Targeting System of Language (The MIT Press, 2018)

Published articles[edit] * "The Relation of Grammar to Cognition" * "Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition" * "How Language Structures Space" * "Fictive Motion in Language and `Ception'" * "Lexicalization Patterns" * "The Representation of Spatial Structure in Spoken and Signed Languages: a Neural Model"
 * "A Typology of Event Integration"
 * "Figure and Ground in Language"
 * "The Semantics of Causation"
 * "The Fundamental System of Spatial Schemas in Language"
 * "Properties of Main Verbs"
 * "Relating Language to Other Cognitive Systems"
 * "Combinance in the Evolution of Language"
 * "Structure within Morphemic Meaning"
 * "Semantic Unilocality"
 * "Targeting in Language: Unifying Deixis and Anaphora
 * "A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics" (foreword to: Handbook of Cognitive Semantics)

See also[edit]

* Force Dynamics * Figure-Ground * Cognitive Linguistics

REASON FOR THE CHANGE Emeritus Professor Talmy requested that I make the change for him. Before he retired, he had a research assistant who would do it.

REFERENCES SUPPORTING CHANGE Email Len Talmy talmy @ buffalo.edu to confirm this request. Hilnay (talk) 20:33, 25 February 2024 (UTC)hilnayHilnay (talk) 20:33, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * You can make the edit now, ping me when your done. Geardona (talk to me?) 02:00, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Geardona: Pinging you since Hilnay seems to have forgot. It's a bit too promotional for my liking though. They implemented the edit here. I'm going to be closing this edit request since it seems to have been resolved. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 17:32, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I was notified on my talk page, I quickly reviewed it but do a agree with the promotional aspect. Geardona (talk to me?) 18:59, 29 March 2024 (UTC)