Meaning and universal grammar : theory and empirical findings. Volume I / / edited by Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka
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| Titolo: |
Meaning and universal grammar : theory and empirical findings. Volume I / / edited by Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401 |
| 401.43 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Semantics |
| Grammar, Comparative and general | |
| Altri autori: |
GoddardCliff
WierzbickaAnna
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. General -- pt. 2. Individual language studies. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Meaning and universal grammar |
| ISBN: | 1-283-28030-2 |
| 9786613280305 | |
| 90-272-8187-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809874403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 60.