19.1609, Books: Semantics/Ling Theories/Typology: Goddard (Ed)

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Title: Cross-Linguistic Semantics 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 102  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20102 


Editor: Cliff Goddard

Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205698 Pages: 356 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205698 Pages: 356 Price: U.S. $ 180.00


Abstract:

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 lexicogrammatica l 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. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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