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Cross-linguistic semantics /

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 metalanguag...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goddard, Cliff
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 102.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.