| Semantics: Primes and Universals
By Anna Wierzbicka
ISBN: 9780198700029
Published: 1996
Number of Pages: 512
Binding: Hardcover |
Pricing & Availability:Additional Details:
Product Type: Book
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: Conceptual primitives and semantic universals are the cornerstones of a semantic theory which Anna Wierzbicka has been developing for many years. Semantics: Primes and Universals is a major synthesis of her work, presenting a full and systematic exposition of that theory in a non-technical and readable way. It delineates a full set of universal concepts, as they have emerged from large-scale investigations across a wide range of languages undertaken by the author and her colleagues. On the basis of empirical cross-linguistic studies it vindicates the old notion of the "psychic unity of mankind", while at the same time offering a framework for the rigorous description of different languages and cultures. |
International Standard Book Number:
0198700024:
0198700032Level of Bibliographic Control and Coding Detail:
abd/abd(abd)Library of Congress Call Number
- Classification number:
P325.5.U54 - Item number:
W54 1996XDewey Decimal Classification Number
- Edition number:
20 - Classification number:
401/.43Main Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Wierzbicka, Anna.Title Statement
- Title:
Semantics : - Remainder of title:
primes and universals / - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Anna Wierzbicka.Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
- Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
New York : - Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
Oxford [England] ; - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Oxford University Press, - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1996.Physical Description
- Extent:
xii, 500 p.General Note:
Includes previously published material rev. and expanded for this publication.Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
- Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Grammar, Comparative and general. - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Language and culture. - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Semantics. - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Universals (Linguistics)