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| Other authors / contributors: | Goddard, Cliff.
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| ISBN: | 9789027291370
9027291373
9789027205698
9027205698
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 a.
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| Other form: | Print version: Cross-linguistic semantics. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 9789027205698 9027205698
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