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Plastic glasses and church fathers : semantic extension from the ethnoscience tradition /

Presents a comprehensive understanding of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world. The text aims to develop a theory of the semantics of natural language which can account adequately for native speakers' intuitions regarding word meanings and their word usage...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kronenfeld, David B., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Colección:Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 1. Overview; 2. Intellectual Context of the Theory; 3. Saussurean Roots, Structural Linguistics, and Basic Concepts; 4. Defining Structures-Taxonomies and Componential Paradigms; 5. Componential Analysis: The English Kinterms Example; 6. Conjunctivity; 7. Marking; 8. Information Processing Limits; 9. Prior Extensionist Work; 10. The Theory; 11. Examples; 12. Toward a Theory of the Semantics of Words; Appendix: Piagetian Schemas; Bibliography; Index