Skinner’s Elementary Verbal Relations: Some New Categories

Skinner's elementary verbal relations: Some new categories.

In Verbal Behavior (1957) B. F. Skinner identified and named five elementary verbal relations: mand, tact, intraverbal, textual and echoic. Because of their etymological commitment to visual and auditory stimuli respectively, the last two categories do not function well as general categories. Adding two more general categories, codic and duplic, to the first three results in a set of five mutua...

Elementary categories, elementary toposes

On Semantics of Some Verbal Categories in English

An attempt is made at such a description of the semantics of some verbal categories that would fit in the functional type of generative description of language as proposed by Sgall. In most analyses of the. relationship between the morphemic verbal forms and their temporal meanings that have been made in this sphere up to now, the schemas employed proceed in two directions, that of temporal spe...

Some New Highest Weight Categories

Let G be a semisimple, simply connected algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field k of positive characteristic p. Assume that p is larger than the Coxeter number of G and that the Lusztig character formula holds for regular restricted dominant weights. In this paper, we introduce two new highest weight categories C even and C reg odd , both full subcategories of the category C ...

Two Categories of Relations