1. The Search for the Shared Semantic Core of All Languages

Goddard, Cliff

doi:10.1075/slcs.60.07god

In:Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
[Studies in Language Companion Series 60] 2002
► pp. 5–40

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1. The Search for the Shared Semantic Core of All Languages

Cliff Goddard

Published online: 31 May 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.60.07god

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