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Publication details [#16828]

Peeters, Bert. 1997. The Syntax of Time and Space Primitives in French. Language Sciences 19 (3) : 235–244.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

natural semantic metalanguage | semantic primitive | space deixis | time deixis

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The paper explores the combinatorial possibilities of the proposed semantic primes of time and space in French. It highlights the need for combinatorial and portmanteau allolexies to express some combinations, in particular, for many of the combinations involving WHEN/TIME.