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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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
c2008.
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 102. |
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess MyiLibrary |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 356 p.) : ill. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027291370 (electronic bk.) 9027291373 (electronic bk.) 9789027205698 (hb : alk. paper) 9027205698 (hb : alk. paper) |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |