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Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific
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What does Jukurrpa ('Dreamtime', 'the Dreaming') mean? A semantic and conceptual journey of discovery
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In: Australian Aboriginal Studies (2016)
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The meaning of colour words in a cross-linguistic perspective
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‘It's mine!’. Re-thinking the conceptual semantics of “possession” through NSM
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In: Language Sciences (2016)
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The meaning of colour words in a cross-linguistic perspective
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A whole cloud of culture condensed into a drop of semantics: The meaning of the German word Herr as a term of address
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In: International Journal of Language and Culture (2016)
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“Walking” and “running” in English and German: The conceptual semantics of verbs of human locomotion
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'It's mine!'. Re-thinking the conceptual semantics of "possession" through NSM
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This study has two main parts. It begins with a conceptual and semantic analysis in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework (Wierzbicka, 1996; Peeters, 2006) Goddard and Wierzbicka, 2002, 2014a) of what linguists term “true possession” or “ownership”. The requirements of the NSM framework force the analysis to be conducted using very simple expressions that are available not only in English, but (ideally) in all languages. The main proposal is that true possession is anchored in a semantic prime with an egocentric perspective that occurs in a predicative construction, i.e. (is) mine. It is argued that expressions like ‘This is mine’ are semantically irreducible and (very likely) universally expressible across the diversity of the world's languages. In the second part of the study, three semantically and grammatically complex “possession verbs” are examined: steal, give, and own. Intricate (but coherent) explications for the English versions of these words are proposed, using (is) mine and a range of other semantic components. Though no claim is made that all languages possess precisely these meanings, this study hopes to help pave the way for a lexical semantic typology of “ownership-related” concepts in the languages of the world. ; Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics ; No Full Text
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/142814 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2016.03.002
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NSM analyses of the semantics of physical qualities: sweet, hot, hard, heavy, rough, sharp in cross-linguistic perspective
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In: Studies in Language (2015)
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Understanding others requires shared concepts
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In: Pragmatics and Cognition (2015)
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Lexical prototypes as a universal basis for cross-linguistic identification of parts of speech.
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