Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: b. September 18, 1954
Birthday: September 18
Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places, paths, motions, agency, and causation underlie the literal or figurative meanings of tens of thousands of words and constructions, not only in English but in every other language that has been studied.
source: Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.355, W. W. Norton & Company
topic: Agency, Space, Research, Cognitive