Primitive terms, anyone?

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2 total messages Started by John Walker Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:54

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Author: John Walker
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:54

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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.

Take care,

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Re: Primitive terms, anyone?

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Author: bert peeters
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:36

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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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