Cross-Linguistic Semantics (Studies in Language Companion Series)

Cross-Linguistic Semantics......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page
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LCC data
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Table of contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of contributors......Page 14
List of tables, figures and appendices......Page 16
CHAPTER 1. Natural Semantic Metalanguage: The state of the art......Page 18
CHAPTER 2. New semantic primes and new syntactic frames: “Specificational BE” and “abstract THIS/IT”......Page 52
CHAPTER 3. Towards a systematic table of semantic elements......Page 76
CHAPTER 4. 
Semantic primes in Amharic......Page 100
CHAPTER 5. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage of Korean......Page 138
CHAPTER 6. Semantic primes and their grammar in a polysynthetic language: East Cree......Page 180
CHAPTER 7. Hyperpolysemy in Bunuba, a polysynthetic language of the Kimberley, Western Australia......Page 222
CHAPTER 8. Re-thinking THINK in contrastive perspective: Swedish vs. English......Page 242
CHAPTER 9. Identification and syntax of semantic prime MOMENT in Tarifyt Berber......Page 258
CHAPTER 10. The ethnogeometry of Makasai (East Timor)......Page 276
CHAPTER 11. The semantics of “inalienable possession” in Koromu (PNG)......Page 294
CHAPTER 12. Tolerance: New and traditional values in Russian in comparison with English......Page 318
CHAPTER 13. Two “virtuous emotions” in Japanese: Nasake/joo and jihi......Page 348
Author index......Page 366
Language and language families index......Page 368
Subject index......Page 370
The Studies in Language Companion Series......Page 374