In:Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages
Edited by Bert Peeters
[Studies in Language Companion Series 81] 2006
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 16 August 2006
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
List of contributors
List of abbreviationsxiii
Typographical conventions and symbolsxv
Preface
Scope and contents of this volume
The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach: An overview with reference to the most important Romance languages
Part 1: Romance versions of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Substantives; determines; quantifiers
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Evaluators and descriptors; mental predicates
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Speech; actions, events and movement; existence and possession; life and death
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Time and space
Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Logical concepts; intensifier and augmentor; taxonomy and partonomy; similarity
Part 2: The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Applied
Sfogarsi: A semantic analysis of an Italian speech routine and its underlying cultural values
Portuguese saudade and other emotions of absence and longing
The development of a key word: The deictic field of Spanish crisis
The French connector certes: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage interpretation
Francamente, el rojo te sienta fatal: Semantics and pragmatics of some expressions of sincerity in present-day Spanish
Towards a description of Spanish and Italian diminutives within the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework
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