| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 356 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in language companion series,
0165-7763 ;
v. 102
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 102.
0165-7763
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cross-Linguistic Semantics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of tables, figures and appendices; CHAPTER 1. Natural Semantic Metalanguage: The state of the art; CHAPTER 2. New semantic primes and new syntactic frames: "Specificational BE" and "abstract THIS/IT"; CHAPTER 3. Towards a systematic table of semantic elements; CHAPTER 4. Semantic primes in Amharic; CHAPTER 5. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage of Korean; CHAPTER 6. Semantic primes and their grammar in a polysynthetic language: East Cree. |
| Summary |
Cross-linguistic semantics - investigating how languages package and express meanings differently - is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language. This set of studies explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised in the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework, originated by Anna Wierzbicka. The opening chapters give a state-of-the-art overview of the NSM model, propose several theoretical innovations and advance a number of original analyses in connection with names and naming, clefts and other specificational sentences, and discourse a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Metalanguage.
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Metalanguage. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Goddard, Cliff.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cross-linguistic semantics. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 9789027205698 9027205698 (DLC) 2008006977 (OCoLC)192134491 |
| ISBN |
9789027291370 (electronic book) |
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9027291373 (electronic book) |
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9789027205698 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027205698 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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