Koromu temporal expressions: Semantic and cultural perspectives
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This chapter examines different types of time expressed in Koromu (Kesawai), a Papuan language, to show the interaction of time expressions with cultural and environmental contexts and to investigate semantic description. Meanings are explicated in a metalanguage based on semantic primitives (cf. Wierzbicka 1996; Goddard 2008; Gladkova, this volume). The discovery of natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) temporal primes and investigation of semantic molecules, non-primitive meanings that occur...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2012 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/50595 |
DOI: | 10.1075/hcp.37 |
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