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UNINA9910456598003321 |
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Titolo |
Meaning and universal grammar [[electronic resource] ] : theory and empirical findings. Volume I / / edited by Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka |
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Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-28030-2 |
9786613280305 |
90-272-8187-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (354 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in language companion series (SLCS), , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 60 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GoddardCliff |
WierzbickaAnna |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Semantics |
Grammar, Comparative and general |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. General -- pt. 2. Individual language studies. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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