Cross-linguistic semantics
Subtitle: explications, metalanguage, grammar
By: edited by Cliff Goddard.
Contributors: Goddard, Cliff.
Series: Studies in language companion series -- 102
Publisher: John Benjamins; John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9789027205698
Subjects: Semantics; Metalanguage
Description: "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. 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.