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- From: peeters@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (bert peeters)
- Subject: Re: Primitive terms, anyone?
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:36:03 GMT
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- walkerj@access.digex.com (John Walker) writes:
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- >Could anyone suggest any publications that devote a fair amount of
- >space to primitive terms and how to deal with them? And by
- >"publications", I mean either texts or periodicals. (No objection
- >to thesis works, just not apt to be able to get hold of them.)
-
- >Alternatively or additionally, any references to departments or
- >profs who give good coverage to their study would be nice.
-
- Have a look at almost anything written by Anna Wierzbicka. She's very
- prolific, so you shouldn't have trouble finding refs to her papers and
- books. I can provide more detailed pointers if necessary. By the way,
- Wierzbicka, for those who don't know, is a professor in the linguistics
- department of the Faculty of Arts of the Australian National University.
- She has quite a few followers (including myself) who are attempting to
- use the semantic metalanguage of primitives which she has worked on for
- more than twenty years in semantic descriptions involving a great many
- different languages.
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