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Meaning and universal grammar. theory and empirical findings / Volume II :
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 61. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear to have concrete exponents in all languages. For six typologically divergent languages (Mangaaba-Mbula, Mandarin Chinese, Lao, Malay, Spanish and Polish), contributors identify exponents of the primes and work through a substantial set of hypotheses about their combinatorics, valency properties, compl. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1588112640 9781588112644 1588112659 9781588112651 9027230633 9789027230638 9027230641 9789027230645 1588113221 9781588113221 9789027281869 9027281866 1283280299 9781283280297 9786613280299 6613280291 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |