Wolfgang Wildgen's "Catastrophe theoretical models in semantics"

John Sowa writing on the Ontolog discussion list 2007:

“René Thom, who founded catastrophe theory and received the Fields Medal for his efforts, was firmly convinced that all areas of human perception and cognition – language, in particular – depend on features that are closely related to catastrophe theory.

Wolfgang Wildgen is a linguist who developed Thom’s ideas on catastrophe theory applied to of semantics. For various papers and PowerPoint slides (in English, German, and French) see the list on his website:

http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/lehrpersonal/wildgen.aspx

Wildgen also published several books in English that present Thom’s ideas and Wildgen’s extensions in some detail.”