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dc.contributor.authorPriestley, Carol
dc.contributor.editorLuna Filipovic and Kasia M. Jaszczolt
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T16:10:12Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T16:10:12Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-04-08T01:07:10Z
dc.identifier.isbn9789027223913
dc.identifier.doi10.1075/hcp.37
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/50354
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleSpace and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition
dc.relation.ispartofchapter7
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom143
dc.relation.ispartofpageto165
dc.relation.ispartofvolume37
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200408
dc.titleKoromu temporal expressions: Semantic and cultural perspectives
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics
gro.date.issued2012
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPriestley, Carol A.


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