Semantic analysis : a practical introduction / Cliff Goddard
- Bib ID:
- 5680797
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Goddard, Cliff
- Edition:
- 2nd. ed.
- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011
- xvii, 490 p. : ill., maps. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780199560288
- 0199560285
- Series:
- Oxford textbooks in linguistics.
- Summary:
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Introduces students and scholars to practical and precise methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and for revealing connections between language and culture. Features a wide range of languages, including Australian Aboriginal languages. Cliff Goddard, Griffith University, Australia.
Introduces students and scholars to practical and precise methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and for revealing connections between language and culture. Features a wide range of languages, including Australian Aboriginal languages.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Semantics: the study of meaning
- 2. Three traditions: lexicography, logic, and structuralism
- 3. NSM and other contemporary approaches
- 4. The semantics of emotions
- 5. Speech-act verbs
- 6. Discourse particles and interjections
- 7. Animals and artefacts
- 8. Motion
- 9. Physical activity verbs
- 10. Causatives
- 11. Grammatical categories
- 12. Developments, extensions, and applications.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-475) and indexes.
- Subject:
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- Semantics
- Arrernte / Aranda language (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Kayardild / Kaiadilt language (G35) (Qld SE54-06)
- Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Rembarrnga language (N73) (NT SD53-06)
- Language - Linguistics - Vocabulary and grammar - Verbs
- Yidiny / Yidindji language (Y117) (Qld SE55-06)
- Language - Semantics
- Yankunytjatjara language (C4) (NT SG52-16)
- Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax
- Dyirbal / Djirbal / Jirrabul language (Y123) (Qld SE55-05)
- Pitjantjatjara language (C6) (NT SG52-11)
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- Publication date:
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