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Semantics ' Primes and Universals '

Semantics ' Primes and Universals '

Wierzbicka, Anna

Paperback

Series: St. in Classification Data Analysis

General ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 0198700032
ISBN13: 9780198700036
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 9 1996
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.19
Language: English
Conceptual primitives and semantic universals are the cornerstones of a semantic theory which Anna Wierzbicka has been developing for many years. Semantics: Primes and Universals is a major synthesis of her work, presenting a full and systematic exposition of that theory in a non-technical and readable way. It delineates a full set of universal concepts, as they have emerged from large-scale investigations across a wide range of languages undertaken by the author and her colleagues. On the basis of empirical cross-linguistic studies it vindicates the old notion of the psychic unity of mankind, while at the same time offering a framework for the rigorous description of different languages and cultures.

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