Cross-Linguistic Semantics

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Cliff Goddard

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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 anaphora. Subsequent chapters describe and analyse diverse phenomena in ten languages from multiple families, geographical locations, and cultural settings around the globe. Three substantial studies document how the metalanguage of NSM semantic primes can be realised in languages of widely differing types: Amharic (Ethiopia), Korean, and East Cree. Each constitutes a lexicogrammatical portrait in miniature of the language concerned. Other chapters probe topics such as inalienable possession in Koromu (Papua New Guinea), epistemic verbs in Swedish, hyperpolysemy in Bunuba (Australia), the expression of "momentariness" in Berber, ethnogeometry in Makasai (East Timor), value concepts in Russian, and “virtuous emotions” in Japanese. This book will be valuable for linguists working on language description, lexical semantics, or the semantics of grammar, for advanced students of linguistics, and for others interested in language universals and language diversity.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 102] 2008. xvi, 356 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.102

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
List of contributors	xiii
List of tables, figures and appendices	xv–xvi
Part I. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory
1. Natural Semantic Metalanguage: The state of the art Cliff Goddard	1–34
2. New semantic primes and new syntactic frames: "Specificational BE" and "abstract THIS/IT" Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka	35–57
3. Towards a systematic table of semantic elements Cliff Goddard	59–81
Part II. Whole metalanguage studies
4. Semantic primes in Amharic Mengistu Amberber	83–119
5. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage of Korean Kyung-Joo Yoon	121–162
6. Semantic primes and their grammar in a polysynthetic language: East Cree Marie-Odile Junker	163–204
Part III. Problems in semantic metalanguage
7. Hyperpolysemy in Bunuba, a polysynthetic language of the Kimberley, Western Australia Emily Knight	205–223
8. Re-thinking THINK in contrastive perspective: Swedish vs. English Cliff Goddard and Susanna Karlsson	225–240
9. Identification and syntax of semantic prime MOMENT in Tarifyt Berber Noureddine Elouazizi and Radoslava Trnavac	241–258
Part IV. Semantic studies across languages
10. The ethnogeometry of Makasai (East Timor) Anna Brotherson	259–276
11. The semantics of "inalienable possession" in Koromu (PNG) Carol Priestley	277–299
12. Tolerance: New and traditional values in Russian in comparison with English Anna Gladkova	301–329
13. Two "virtuous emotions" in Japanese: Nasake/joo and jihi Rie Hasada	331–347

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Semantics

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BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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