A Critical Review: 17 Semantic Primitives Across Languages

Wierzbicka, Anna

doi:10.1075/slcs.25.22wie

In:Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
[Studies in Language Companion Series 25] 1994
► pp. 445–500

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17 Semantic Primitives Across Languages

A Critical Review

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Anna Wierzbicka

Published online: 4 May 1994

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.25.22wie

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