Leonard Talmy is a professor of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Buffalo in New York. He is most famous for his pioneering work in cognitive linguistics, more specifically, in the relationship between semantic and formal linguistic structures and the connections between semantic typologies and universals. He also specializes in the study of Yiddish and Native American linguistics.
Talmy's intention in both volumes is to address the issue of the linguistic representation of conceptual structure.
Here, Talmy's new vocabulary seems to be on the brink of a discovery similar to Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) classification of various types of metonymy as falling under the category of metaphor in the broadest sense.
Talmy also avoids philosophical discussion of objectivism and subjectivism as a duality, by acknowledging the need to establish the factuality of an event together with the perspective of the speaker who associates it with a broader context.
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