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Date: 05-Sep-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Peeters (Ed) 

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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:31:43
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Peeters (Ed) 

Title: Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar 
Subtitle: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 81  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2081 

Editor: Bert Peeters, University of Tasmania

Hardback: ISBN: 9027230919 Pages: 374 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027230919 Pages: 374 Price: U.S. $ 150.00

Abstract:

Affectionately known as SPUG, this volume is part of a research program 
which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka's 
groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to 
focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, 
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version of the Natural Semantic 
Metalanguage (NSM) elaborated over the years by Wierzbicka and 
colleagues. Repetition is avoided through teamwork: a number of authors 
working on the languages under examination have had equal input in a set of 
five papers dealing with distinct parts of the metalanguage. Some of the 
findings presented here invite us to have a fresh look at what has already 
been achieved, and to amend some of the working hypotheses of the NSM 
approach accordingly. The volume also contains six case studies (on Italian 
sfogarsi, Portuguese saudades, Spanish crisis, French certes, Spanish 
expressions of sincerity and Italian and Spanish diminutives, respectively). 

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  ix  
List of contributors  xi-xii  
List of abbreviations  xiii  
Typographical conventions and symbols  xv  
Preface 
Anna Wierzbicka 1-6  
Scope and contents of this volume 
Bert Peeters 7-12  
The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach: An overview with 
reference to the most important Romance languages 
Cliff Goddard and Bert Peeters 13-38  
Part 1: Romance versions of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage   
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in 
Romance: Substantives; determines; quantifiers 
Bert Peeters, Marie-Odile Junker, Catherine E. Travis, Patrick Farrell, Pedro 
Perini-Santos and Brigid Maher 41-77  
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in 
Romance: Evaluators and descriptors; mental predicates 
Bert Peeters, Marie-Odile Junker, Catherine E. Travis, Patrick Farrell, Pedro 
Perini-Santos and Brigid Maher 79-109  
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in 
Romance: Speech; actions, events and movement; existence and 
possession; life and death 
Bert Peeters, Marie-Odile Junker, Patrick Farrell, Pedro Perini-Santos and 
Brigid Maher 111-136  
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in 
Romance: Time and space 
Bert Peeters, Marie-Odile Junker, Patrick Farrell, Pedro Perini-Santos and 
Brigid Maher 137-175  
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in 
Romance: Logical concepts; intensifier and augmentor; taxonomy and 
partonomy; similarity 
Bert Peeters, Marie-Odile Junker, Patrick Farrell, Pedro Perini-Santos and 
Brigid Maher 177-204  

Part 2: The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Applied   
Sfogarsi: A semantic analysis of an Italian speech routine and its underlying 
cultural values 
Brigid Maher 207-233  
Portuguese saudade and other emotions of absence and longing 
Patrick Farrell 235-258  
The development of a key word: The deictic field of Spanish crisis 
Deborah DuBartell 259-287  
The French connector certes: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage 
interpretation 
Monique A. Burston 289-305  
Francamente, el rojo te sienta fatal: Semantics and pragmatics of some 
expressions of sincerity in present-day Spanish 
Mónica Aznárez Mauleón and Ramón González Ruiz 307-330  
Towards a description of Spanish and Italian diminutives within the Natural 
Semantic Metalanguage framework 
Angela Bartens and Niclas Sandström 331-360  
Indexes  361-374 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Written In: English  (eng)

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