Cross-linguistic semantics.9789027205698 Cross-linguistic semantics. Ed. by Cliff Goddard. John Benjamins John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher in social sciences and humanities with offices in Amsterdam (main office) and Philadelphia (North American office). It is especially noted for its publications in linguistics. Publishing Co. 2008 356 pages $180.00 Hardcover Studies in language companion series; 102 P325 Goddard (U. of New England) presents this book for advanced students and professionals in linguistics describing the natural semantic metalanguage The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) is an approach to semantic analysis based on reductive paraphrase (that is, breaking concepts/words down into combinations of simpler concepts/words, see Oligosynthetic language) using a small collection of semantic primes. (NSM (Network and System Management) Running and controlling the networks and computer systems in an enterprise. See network management. ) framework for investigating semantic primes cross-linguistically, and detailing a number of metalanguage A language used to describe another language. 1. metalanguage - [theorem proving] A language in which proofs are manipulated and tactics are programmed, as opposed to the logic itself (the "object language"). studies and problems therein. Chapters look at topics that include: the specificational "be" and abstract "this/it," a systematic table of semantic elements, semantic primes in Amharic, semantic primes and their grammar in the polysynthetic language of East Cree, hyperpolysemy in Bunuba (Australia), the ethnogeometry of Makasai (East Timor), and the semantics of "inalienable possession" in Koromu (Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (păp`  ə, –y ).
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