Semantic primes and universal grammar : empirical evidence from the Romance languages

Bert Peeters

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1. Acknowledgements 2. List of contributors 3. List of abbreviations 4. Typographical conventions and symbols 5. Preface (by Wierzbicka, Anna) 6. Scope and contents of this volume (by Peeters, Bert) 7. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach: An overview with reference to the most important Romance languages (by Goddard, Cliff) 8. Part 1: Romance versions of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage 9. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Substantives determines quantifiers (by Peeters, Bert) 10. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Evaluators and descriptors mental predicates (by Peeters, Bert) 11. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Speech actions, events and movement existence and possession life and death (by Peeters, Bert) 12. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Time and space (by Peeters, Bert) 13. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Logical concepts intensifier and augmentor taxonomy and partonomy similarity (by Peeters, Bert) 14. Part 2: The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Applied 15. Sfogarsi: A semantic analysis of an Italian speech routine and its underlying cultural values (by Maher, Brigid) 16. Portuguese saudade and other emotions of absence and longing (by Farrell, Patrick) 17. The development of a key word: The deictic field of Spanish crisis (by DuBartell, Deborah) 18. The French connector certes: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage interpretation (by Burston, Monique A.) 19. Francamente, el rojo te sienta fatal: Semantics and pragmatics of some expressions of sincerity in present-day Spanish (by Aznarez Mauleon, Monica) 20. Towards a description of Spanish and Italian diminutives within the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework (by Bartens, Angela) 21. Indexes

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