Semantic and Lexical Universals

ISBN-13: 9789027230287 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 520 str.

Goddard;Wierzbicka

Opis

Identification of universal human concepts found in all languages can aid interpreting and explaining culture-specific meanings encoded in the language-and-culture systems of the world. This work attempts to test a hypothetical set of semantic and lexical universals across a number of languages.