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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 1994

Mandarin Semantic Primitives

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The approach taken in this analysis of Mandarin is that only a small subset of lexemes and expressions of a natural spoken language serves as a potential 'key ' or metalanguage in directly representing basic conceptual building blocks, a framework of semantic analysis advocated and developed by Anna Wierzbicka (1972 , 1980, 1985, 1989a , 1989b , 1991) and Cliff Goddard (1989 , 1991). In the main section of the paper, the eight classes of primitives proposed by Goddard and Wierzbicka are discussed in turn for Mandarin : (1 ) substantives and pronouns; (2 ) mental predicates; (3) determiners and quantifiers; (4 ) actions and events; (5) metapredicates; (6) time and place; (7) meronymy and taxonomy; and (8) evaluators and descriptors. Most of the data are elicited fo r th e purpose of creating the set of test sentences wit h th e primitives in thei r canonical contexts i n order to provid e a comparative corpus for this volume. Where possible, I have supplemented thi with data from transcriptions of recorded conversations and narratives to add utterances from natural contexts . The data are transcribed using the pinyïn system officially adopted in China in 1958 which is used as an ancillary writing system to the character script.
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hal-03935196 , version 1 (11-01-2023)

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Hilary Chappell. Mandarin Semantic Primitives. Semantic and Lexical Universals, 25, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.109-147, 1994, Studies in Language Companion Series, ⟨10.1075/slcs.25.09cha⟩. ⟨hal-03935196⟩
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