Cross-linguistic semantics:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Studies in language companion series v. 102
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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
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
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