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  • Koromu temporal expressions: Semantic and cultural perspectives

    Author(s)
    Priestley, Carol
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    Priestley, Carol A.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    This chapter examines different types of time expressed in Koromu (Kesawai), a Papuan language, to show the interaction of time expressions with cultural and environmental contexts and to investigate semantic description. Meanings are explicated in a metalanguage based on semantic primitives (cf. Wierzbicka 1996; Goddard 2008; Gladkova, this volume). The discovery of natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) temporal primes and investigation of semantic molecules, non-primitive meanings that occur within the meaning of other concepts, promotes comparative and contrastive semantic description. The finding of culture-specific concepts ...
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    This chapter examines different types of time expressed in Koromu (Kesawai), a Papuan language, to show the interaction of time expressions with cultural and environmental contexts and to investigate semantic description. Meanings are explicated in a metalanguage based on semantic primitives (cf. Wierzbicka 1996; Goddard 2008; Gladkova, this volume). The discovery of natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) temporal primes and investigation of semantic molecules, non-primitive meanings that occur within the meaning of other concepts, promotes comparative and contrastive semantic description. The finding of culture-specific concepts referring to 'time-' and 'event-based' time intervals (cf. da Silva Sinha et al., this volume), linear and cyclical time (cf. Charlier, this volume), suggests that a range of expressions need consideration when cultural perspectives are assessed.
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    Book Title
    Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition
    Volume
    37
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.37
    Subject
    Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/50354
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