Semantics : primes and universals / Anna Wierzbicka
- Bib ID:
- 1029724
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wierzbicka, Anna, 1938
- Description:
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- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
- xii, 500 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0198700032 (paperback)
- 0198700024
- Partial contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Survey of Semantic Primitives
- 3. Universal Grammar: The Syntax of Universal Semantic Primitives
- 4. Prototypes and Invariant
- 5. Semantic Primitives and Semantic Fields
- 6. Semantics and "Primitive Thought"
- 7. Semantic Complexity and the Role of Ostension in the Acquisition of Concepts
- 8. Against "Against Definitions"
- 9. Semantics and Lexicography
- 10. The Meaning of Colour Terms and the Universals of Seeing
- 11. The Semantics of Natural Kinds
- 12. Semantics and Ethnobiology
- 13. Semantic Rules in Grammar
- 14. A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Description and Typology: Transitivity and Reflexives
- 15. Comparing Grammatical Categories across Languages: The Semantics of Evidentials.
- Notes:
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- Includes previously published material rev. and expanded for this publication.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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