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Publication details [#28526]
Goddard, Cliff and Anna Wierzbicka. 1994. Semantic and lexical universals: Theory and empirical findings. John Benjamins. vii + 512 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
ISBN
90 272 028 5
Annotation
This book argues for the need of a semantic metalanguage, composed of language-independent, 'primitive' elements, to state the meaning of words without arbitrariness. The survey thereto tries to validate a set of presumed 'primitives' in genetically and typologically diverse languages.