Knott Alistair
Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Behav Brain Sci. 2003 Jun;26(3):294-295. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X03350071.
Predicate logic has proved a very useful tool for the expression of theories of natural language semantics. Hurford's suggestion that predicate-argument structures mirror certain properties of the human sensorimotor architecture can be seen as an explanation of why this is so. Although I support this view, I think that the correspondences that Hurford draws between linguistic and sensorimotor structures not only involve natural language semantics, but include some elements of natural language syntax as well.