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Meaning and universal grammar : theory and empirical findings. Volume II / edited by Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 61.
- Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; v. 61
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear to have concrete exponents in all languages. For six typologically divergent languages (Mangaaba-Mbula, Mandarin Chinese, Lao, Malay, Spanish and Polish), contributors identify exponents of the primes and work through a substantial set of hypotheses about their combinatorics, valency properties, compl
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Individual language studies
- pt. 2. General.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613280299
- 9781283280297
- 1283280299
- 9789027281869
- 9027281866
- OCLC:
- 752499720
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