Neoclassical Concepts

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Linguistic theories of lexical semantics support a Neoclassical Theory of concepts, where entities like <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">CAUSE</jats:styled-content>, <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">STATE</jats:styled-content>, and <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">MANNER</jats:styled-content> serve as necessary conditions for the possession of individual event concepts. Not all concepts have a neoclassical structure, and whether or not words participate in regular linguistic patterns such as verbal alternations will be proposed as a probe for identifying whether their corresponding concepts do indeed have such structure. I show how the Neoclassical Theory supplements existing theories of concepts and supports a version of analyticity and conceptual analysis.</jats:p>