The semantics of nouns /
edited by Zhengdao Ye.
- First edition.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- xiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-306) and index.
The semantics of nouns : a cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective / The meaning of kinship terms : a developmental and cross-linguistic perspective / The semantics of social relations in Chinese / The meanings of 'angel' in English, Arabic, and Hebrew / Personhood constructs in language and thought : new evidence from Danish / Some key body parts and polysemy : a case study from Koromu (Kesawai) / The semantics of standing-water places in English, French, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara / The semantics of demonyms in English : Germans, Queenslanders, and Londoners / The semantics of honeybee terms in Solega (Dravidian) / Furniture, vegetables, weapons : functional collective superordinates in the English lexicon / Zhengdao Ye -- Anna Wierzbicka -- Zhengdao Ye -- Sandy Habib -- Carsten Levisen -- Carol Priestly -- Helen Bromhead -- Michael Roberts -- Aung Si -- Cliff Goddard.
This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara from Australia. Chapters offer systematic and detailed analyses of scores of individual nouns across a range of conceptual domains, including 'people', 'places', and 'living things', with each analysis fully grounded in a unified methodological framework. They not only cover central theoretical issues specific to the analysis of the domain in question, but also empirically investigate the different types of meaning relations that hold between nouns, such as meronymy, hyponymy, taxonomy, and antonymy.
9780198736721 019873672X
Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.
Semantics.
P271 / .S465 2017
400
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-306) and index.
The semantics of nouns : a cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective / The meaning of kinship terms : a developmental and cross-linguistic perspective / The semantics of social relations in Chinese / The meanings of 'angel' in English, Arabic, and Hebrew / Personhood constructs in language and thought : new evidence from Danish / Some key body parts and polysemy : a case study from Koromu (Kesawai) / The semantics of standing-water places in English, French, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara / The semantics of demonyms in English : Germans, Queenslanders, and Londoners / The semantics of honeybee terms in Solega (Dravidian) / Furniture, vegetables, weapons : functional collective superordinates in the English lexicon / Zhengdao Ye -- Anna Wierzbicka -- Zhengdao Ye -- Sandy Habib -- Carsten Levisen -- Carol Priestly -- Helen Bromhead -- Michael Roberts -- Aung Si -- Cliff Goddard.
This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara from Australia. Chapters offer systematic and detailed analyses of scores of individual nouns across a range of conceptual domains, including 'people', 'places', and 'living things', with each analysis fully grounded in a unified methodological framework. They not only cover central theoretical issues specific to the analysis of the domain in question, but also empirically investigate the different types of meaning relations that hold between nouns, such as meronymy, hyponymy, taxonomy, and antonymy.
9780198736721 019873672X
Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.
Semantics.
P271 / .S465 2017
400