TY - CHAP
T1 - Semantic primes and conceptual ontology
AU - Goddard, Cliff
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to language analysis, originated by Anna Wierzbicka (1972, 1996; Goddard and Wierzbicka 1994, 2002), claims to have identified some 65 universal semantic primes. As explained below, they can be grouped in various ways, using syntactic and/or "thematic" criteria. The present study concentrates on a set of primes which may be termed "substantive", and which form the foundation of the nominal lexicon. After an introduction in Section 1., Section 2. gives an account of the NSM substantive primes. Section 3. addresses the question of how major divisions within the nominal vocabulary are constructed either exclusively from semantic primes, or from primes in combination with semantic molecules. Concluding remarks form Section 4.
AB - The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to language analysis, originated by Anna Wierzbicka (1972, 1996; Goddard and Wierzbicka 1994, 2002), claims to have identified some 65 universal semantic primes. As explained below, they can be grouped in various ways, using syntactic and/or "thematic" criteria. The present study concentrates on a set of primes which may be termed "substantive", and which form the foundation of the nominal lexicon. After an introduction in Section 1., Section 2. gives an account of the NSM substantive primes. Section 3. addresses the question of how major divisions within the nominal vocabulary are constructed either exclusively from semantic primes, or from primes in combination with semantic molecules. Concluding remarks form Section 4.
KW - Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
UR - http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xxxyZo5A_gEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA145
UR - http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110189971-1
UR - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34496196
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783110189971
T3 - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
SP - 145
EP - 173
BT - Ontolinguistics: how ontological status shapes the linguistic coding of concepts
A2 - C Schalley, Andrea
A2 - Zaefferer, Dietmar
PB - Mouton de Gruyter
CY - Berlin, Germany
ER -