Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. List of contributors xiii
5. List of tables, figures and appendices xv
6. Part I. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory
7. 1. Natural Semantic Metalanguage: The state of the art 1
8. 2. New semantic primes and new syntactic frames: "Specificational BE" and "abstract THIS/IT" 35
9. 3. Towards a systematic table of semantic elements 59
10. Part II. Whole metalanguage studies
11. 4. Semantic primes in Amharic 83
12. 5. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage of Korean 121
13. 6. Semantic primes and their grammar in a polysynthetic language: East Cree 163
14. Part III. Problems in semantic metalanguage
15. 7. Hyperpolysemy in Bunuba, a polysynthetic language of the Kimberley, Western Australia 205
16. 8. Re-thinking THINK in contrastive perspective: Swedish vs. English 225
17. 9. Identification and syntax of semantic prime MOMENT in Tarifyt Berber 241
18. Part IV. Semantic studies across languages
19. 10. The ethnogeometry of Makasai (East Timor) 259
20. 11. The semantics of "inalienable possession" in Koromu (PNG) 277
21. 12. Tolerance: New and traditional values in Russian in comparison with English 301
22. 13. Two "virtuous emotions" in Japanese: Nasake/joo and jihi 331