Publications

Books:

Language, Mind and Computation. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014).

Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature. Leiden/Boston: Brill (2017).

Language, Biology and Cognition: A Critical Perspective. London/New York: Springer Nature (2019).

Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016).

The Cognitive Variation of Semantic Structures. London/New Delhi: Routledge (2024).  

Handbook of Linguistic Semantics: Bridging Theory, Philosophy and Cognition (edited volume). Under Contract with Springer Nature. 

Journal Papers:

Exploring the N-th Dimension of Language. Research in Computing Science, Vol. 46, P. 55-66 (2010).

Can  Internalism  and  Externalism  be  Reconciled  in  a  Biological  Epistemology  of Language? Biosemiotics, Vol . 5(1), P. 61-82 (2012).

Unraveling the Nature of Sociolinguistic PhenomenaInterdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 5, P. 195-224 (2012).

How the Intentionality of Emotion can be Traced to the Intensionality of Emotive Expressions: Intensionality in Emotive Predicates.Pragmatics and Cognition Vol 21(1): 35-54 (2013).

Does (Linguistic) Computation Need Culture to Make Cognition Viable? Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 97: 464-473 (2013).

Does Computation Reveal Machine Cognition? Biosemiotics, 7: 97-110 (2014).

How does the Faculty of Language Relate to Rules, Axioms and Constraints? Pragmatics and Cognition, 21(2): 270-303 (2014).

On the Computational Character of Semantic Structures. International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications, 2(1): 57-67 (2014).

Grammar is NOT a Computer of the Human Mind/Brain. Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics, 5(1): 85-100.

How Linguistic Meaning Harmonizes with Information through Meaning Conservation. Pragmatics and Cognition, 26(3): 309-333.

Mental Structures as Biosemiotic Constraints on the Functions of Non-human (Neuro)cognitive Systems. Biosemiotics, 13(3): 385-410.

Computational Complexity of Intensional Emotive Constructions, (In)tractability, and Natural Language Processing. New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 17 (2): 505-527.

Disunity with Unity in Cognition within the Context of Language-Biology Relations. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 42(1): 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1037/teo0000156.

Meaning Relations, Syntax, and Understanding. Axiomathes, 32: 459–475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-021-09534-x. 

The Mental Representation of Sounds in Speech Sound Disorders (Co-authored with P Soujanya). HSS Communications (Nature), 8: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00706-z#Abs1

The Limits of Language-Thought Influences can be Set by the Constraints of Embodiment. Frontiers in Psychology: doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.593137.

The Constraints of Embodiment and Language-Thought Relations. Studia UBB Philosophy, 66: 153-163.

Predicate Concepts and their Normal Form. Computing and Systems, 26: 161–170. doi: 10.13053/CyS-26-1-4161.

A Unifying Perspective on Perception and Cognition through Linguistic Representations of Emotion. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 768170. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.768170. 

The Puzzling Chasm between Cognitive Representations and Formal Structures of Linguistic Meanings. Cognitive Science, e13200: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13200. 

A Critical Perspective on the (Neuro)biological Foundations of Language and Linguistic Cognition. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-022-09741-0.

Towards a Unified Representation of Linguistic Meaning. Open Linguistics, 9(1): 20220225. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0225 .

Towards a Unifying Theory of Linguistic Meaning. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2023.2200666.

On the Unified Representation of Continuity and Discontinuity and its Neuro-Cognitive Grounding. Folia Linguistica, https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2017


Book Chapters:

Logical  Form  vs.  Logical  Form:  How  Does  the  Difference  Matter  for  Semantic Computationality? In Heather D Pfeiffer, Dmitry I Ignatov, Jonas Poelmans and Nagarjuna Gadiraju (Eds.). Conceptual Structures for STEM Research and Education. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7735, pp. 254-265. Berlin: Springer (2013).

Non-transitivity at the Cross-section of Language, Emotion and Olfaction. In Melissa Barkat-Defradas   (Ed.). Words for Odors: Language Skills and Cultural Insights. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing (2016).