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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2008.
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Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 102. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.