Abstract

There is no doubt that it is hard to give a systematic procedure to find logical forms from sentences in natural language. However, López-Astorga has tried to offer one. His framework is based on the theory of mental models, a psychological approach that, precisely, proposes that logical forms should be ignored in reasoning. In this way, López-Astorga’s framework still needs to be improved in certain aspects. This paper is intended to do that by considering a particular point: the order of some words, expressions or noun phrases in sentences. Thus, it follows some Talmy’s arguments in order to show that, indeed, the position of certain elements in a sentence can have an influence on its logical form.