The semantics of nouns
This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in a variety of familiar and less well-documented languages. It offers detailed analyses of individual nouns across a range of conceptual domains, including 'people', 'places', and 'living things', with each analysis fully grounded in a unified methodological framework.
Print Book, English, 2017
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017
Aufsatzsammlung
xiv, 315 Seiten.
9780198736721, 019873672X
1002177414
1: Zhengdao Ye: The semantics of nouns: A cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective2: Anna Wierzbicka: The meaning of kinship terms: A developmental and cross-linguistic perspective3: Zhengdao Ye: The semantics of social relation nouns in Chinese4: Sandy Habib: The meanings of 'angel' in English, Arabic, and Hebrew5: Carsten Levisen: Personhood constructs in language and thought: New evidence from Danish6: Carol Priestley: Some key body parts and polysemy: A case study from Koromu (Kesawai)7: Helen Bromhead: The semantics of standing water places in English, French, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara8: Michael Roberts: The semantics of demonyms in English: Germans, Queenslanders, and Londoners9: Aung Si: The semantics of honeybee terms in Solega (Dravidian)10: Cliff Goddard: Furniture, vegetables, weapons: Functional collective superordinates in the English lexiconReferencesIndex