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In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon: concrete, abstract, physical sensory, emotional and social.

Semantics. --- Lexicology. --- English language --- Language and languages --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology)

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How do people describe events they have witnessed? What role does linguistic aspect play in this process? To provide answers to these questions, we conducted an experiment on aspectual framing. In our task, people were asked to view videotaped vehicular accidents and to describe what happened (perfective framing) or what was happening (imperfective framing). Our analyses of speech and gesture in retellings show that the form of aspect used in the question differentially influenced the way people conceptualized and described actions. Questions framed with imperfective aspect resulted in more mo

Cognitive grammar --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Data processing

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This book is a critical discussion of the principle of compositionality, the thesis that the meaning of a complex expression is fully determined by the meanings of its constituents and its structure. The aim of this book is to clarify what is meant by this principle, to show that its traditional justification is insufficient, and to discuss some of the problems that have to be addressed before a new attempt can be made to justify it.

Semantics. --- Compositionality (Linguistics) --- Composition (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Hierarchy (Linguistics) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology)

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This title provides an extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics. --- Negatives. --- Syntax. --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Negatives (Grammar) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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This paper targets the phenomenon of non valence-governed datives of affectedness linked to possession. By adopting a constructional approach based on Goldberg (1995) and a revision of Raineri and Evola (2008), I work out a grid that may be adopted for cross-linguistic purposes. By applying this model to German, French and Italian, I show that the latter language, contrary to the two former ones has thoroughly grammaticalized this function. I also propose a tentative account of the grammaticalization paths that may have led to the heterogeneous behavior of the languages under discussion with r

Semantics. --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Typology --- Classification --- Semantics