The Semantics of Nouns
Zhengdao Ye
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.
The collection of studies show how in-depth meaning analysis anchored in a cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective can lead to unexpected insights into the common and particular ways in which speakers of different languages conceptualize, categorize, and order the world around them. This unique volume brings together a new generation of semanticists from across the globe, and will be of interest to researchers in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, biology, and philosophy. |
Contents
The semantics of nouns A crosslinguistic and crossdomain perspective
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The meaning of kinship terms A developmental and crosslinguistic perspective
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The semantics of social relation nouns in Chinese
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The meanings of angel ́ in English Arabic and Hebrew
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Personhood constructs in language and thought New evidence from Danish
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Some key body parts and polysemy A case study from Koromu Kesawai
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The semantics of standingwater places in English French and PitjantjatjaraYankunytjatjara
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The semantics of demonyms in English Germans Queenslanders and Londoners
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The semantics of honeybee terms in Solega Dravidian
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Furniture vegetables weapons Functional collective superordinates in the English lexicon
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adult affective bond Anangu ånd angels Anna Wierzbicka Australian BASIC CATEGORIZATION bees brother chapter child can say child’s perspective Chinese Cliff Goddard COCA cognitive collective superordinates collocational complementary component concepts context corpus cross-linguistic cultural scripts Danish demonyms Dictionary discussed domain English speakers étang example exemplars father Goddard and Wierzbicka hand Hebrew hejje:nu honeybee human hyponyms je:nu Koromu lake languages legs Levisen lexemes lexical linguistic live mal`akh mal`akhim malāʾika meaning mummy Mummy and Daddy Muslim Arabs natural kinds Natural Semantic Metalanguage one’s Papuan languages people’s person personhood constructs phrase Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara polysemy pond refer relationship Russian Sahih Bukhari semantic analysis semantic molecules semantic primes semantic template shēngrén shúrén sister sjæl social Solega someone can say someone thinks someone’s mother specific standing-water places structure taxonomic think about things tjintjira tjukula Tok Pisin uncle verbs wàirén wapi warku woman word form zìjĭrén