This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in a variety of familiar and less well-documented languages. It offers detailed analyses 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.
This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in a variety of familiar and less well-documented languages. It offers detailed analyses 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Zhengdao Ye is a Lecturer in Linguistics and Translation Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. She received her undergraduate degree in Chinese Linguistics and Literature from the East China Normal University in Shanghai, and her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics from the ANU. Her research interests encompass semantics, pragmatics, language and cognition, translation studies, ethnopsychology, and Chinese linguistics. She is the co-editor, with Cliff Goddard, of 'Happiness' and 'Pain' Across Languages and Cultures (John Benjamins 2016).
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Zhengdao Ye: The semantics of nouns: A cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective * 2: Anna Wierzbicka: The meaning of kinship terms: A developmental and cross-linguistic perspective * 3: Zhengdao Ye: The semantics of social relation nouns in Chinese * 4: Sandy Habib: The meanings of 'angel' in English, Arabic, and Hebrew * 5: Carsten Levisen: Personhood constructs in language and thought: New evidence from Danish * 6: Carol Priestley: Some key body parts and polysemy: A case study from Koromu (Kesawai) * 7: Helen Bromhead: The semantics of standing water places in English, French, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara * 8: Michael Roberts: The semantics of demonyms in English: Germans, Queenslanders, and Londoners * 9: Aung Si: The semantics of honeybee terms in Solega (Dravidian) * 10: Cliff Goddard: Furniture, vegetables, weapons: Functional collective superordinates in the English lexicon * References * Index
* 1: Zhengdao Ye: The semantics of nouns: A cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective * 2: Anna Wierzbicka: The meaning of kinship terms: A developmental and cross-linguistic perspective * 3: Zhengdao Ye: The semantics of social relation nouns in Chinese * 4: Sandy Habib: The meanings of 'angel' in English, Arabic, and Hebrew * 5: Carsten Levisen: Personhood constructs in language and thought: New evidence from Danish * 6: Carol Priestley: Some key body parts and polysemy: A case study from Koromu (Kesawai) * 7: Helen Bromhead: The semantics of standing water places in English, French, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara * 8: Michael Roberts: The semantics of demonyms in English: Germans, Queenslanders, and Londoners * 9: Aung Si: The semantics of honeybee terms in Solega (Dravidian) * 10: Cliff Goddard: Furniture, vegetables, weapons: Functional collective superordinates in the English lexicon * References * Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826