UID:
almafu_9959236836002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (350 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-28029-9
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9786613280299
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90-272-8186-6
Serie:
Studies in language companion series (SLCS), v. 61
Inhalt:
This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear to have concrete exponents in all languages. For six typologically divergent languages (Mangaaba-Mbula, Mandarin Chinese, Lao, Malay, Spanish and Polish), contributors identify exponents of the primes and work through a substantial set of hypotheses about their combinatorics, valency properties, compl
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
pt. 1. Individual language studies -- pt. 2. General.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 90-272-3064-1
Sprache:
Englisch
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