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walkerj@access.digex.com (John Walker) writes:

>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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