Cross-Linguistic Semantics
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| University of New England
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.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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xi
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List of contributors
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xiii
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List of tables, figures and appendices
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xv–xvi
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Part I. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory
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1–34
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35–57
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59–81
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Part II. Whole metalanguage studies
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83–119
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121–162
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163–204
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Part III. Problems in semantic metalanguage
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205–223
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225–240
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241–258
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Part IV. Semantic studies across languages
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259–276
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277–299
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301–329
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331–347
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General