Cross-Linguistic Semantics
Editor
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
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Acknowledgements | p. xi
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List of contributors | p. xiii
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List of tables, figures and appendices | pp. xv–xvi
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Part I. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory
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1. Natural Semantic Metalanguage: The state of the artCliff Goddard | pp. 1–34
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2. New semantic primes and new syntactic frames: "Specificational BE" and "abstract THIS/IT"Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka | pp. 35–57
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3. Towards a systematic table of semantic elementsCliff Goddard | pp. 59–81
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Part II. Whole metalanguage studies
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4. Semantic primes in AmharicMengistu Amberber | pp. 83–119
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5. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage of KoreanKyung-Joo Yoon | pp. 121–162
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6. Semantic primes and their grammar in a polysynthetic language: East CreeMarie-Odile Junker | pp. 163–204
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Part III. Problems in semantic metalanguage
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7. Hyperpolysemy in Bunuba, a polysynthetic language of the Kimberley, Western AustraliaEmily Knight | pp. 205–223
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8. Re-thinking THINK in contrastive perspective: Swedish vs. EnglishCliff Goddard and Susanna Karlsson | pp. 225–240
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9. Identification and syntax of semantic prime MOMENT in Tarifyt BerberNoureddine Elouazizi and Radoslava Trnavac | pp. 241–258
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Part IV. Semantic studies across languages
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10. The ethnogeometry of Makasai (East Timor)Anna Brotherson | pp. 259–276
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11. The semantics of "inalienable possession" in Koromu (PNG)Carol Priestley | pp. 277–299
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12. Tolerance: New and traditional values in Russian in comparison with EnglishAnna Gladkova | pp. 301–329
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13. Two "virtuous emotions" in Japanese: Nasake/joo and jihiRie Hasada | pp. 331–347
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General