{"id":653,"date":"2018-05-14T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/?p=653"},"modified":"2018-05-14T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:11:02","slug":"grammatical-categories-are-used-in-animal-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/2018\/05\/14\/grammatical-categories-are-used-in-animal-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammatical categories are used in animal cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0Chris Golston,\u00a0California State University Fresno, who will present this topic at Friday\u2019s colloquium talk in room E-0105 starting at 14.15.<\/p>\n<p>His abstract:<\/p>\n<p>I show that thirty common grammatical categories are used in animal cognition and are in no way limited to humans or to communication. Based on this, I hypothesize that the semantics behind grammatical categories\u2014including person, number, gender, tense and aspect\u2014were fixed by the time of the human-chimpanzee split; that many go back as far as vertebrates; and that some are shared with plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0Chris Golston,\u00a0California State University Fresno, who will present this topic at Friday\u2019s colloquium talk in room E-0105 starting at 14.15. His abstract: I show that thirty common grammatical categories are used in animal cognition and are in no way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/2018\/05\/14\/grammatical-categories-are-used-in-animal-cognition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}