Screen LibraryThe semantics of nouns /
This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara from Australia. Chapters offer sy...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Oxford linguistics
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This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara from Australia. Chapters offer systematic and detailed analyses of scores 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. They not only cover central theoretical issues specific to the analysis of the domain in question, but also empirically investigate the different types of meaning relations that hold between nouns, such as meronymy, hyponymy, taxonomy, and antonymy. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-306) and index. |
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9780198736721 019873672X |
| Index Number: | P271 |
| CLC: | H042 |
| Call Number: | H042/S471 |
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The semantics of nouns : a cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective / The meaning of kinship terms : a developmental and cross-linguistic perspective / The semantics of social relations in Chinese / The meanings of 'angel' in English, Arabic, and Hebrew / Personhood constructs in language and thought : new evidence from Danish / Some key body parts and polysemy : a case study from Koromu (Kesawai) / The semantics of standing-water places in English, French, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara / The semantics of demonyms in English : Germans, Queenslanders, and Londoners / The semantics of honeybee terms in Solega (Dravidian) / Furniture, vegetables, weapons : functional collective superordinates in the English lexicon / |