Anchoring linguistic typology in universal semantic primes

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-194

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

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Author keywords

Adverbial clause; Case; Complement clause; Complex sentences; Grammatical relations; Mood; Natural semantic metalanguage; Noun; Relative clause; Semantic roles; Sentence; Sentence types; Subject; Topic; Transitivity; Verb; Word; Word classes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002391744     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.1998.2.2.141     Document Type: Article

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