Semantic and lexical universals: Theory and empirical findings Semantic and lexical
universals: Theory and empirical findings …

… meaning as a semantic prime (see below). The 100 or so potential lexical universals considered
in … The claim that semantic primes are universal has been empirically investigated in a …

… semantic universals. We examine potential semantic universals in three areas: (i) the lexicon…
of promising constraints, most of which require further empirical testing and/or refinement. In …

… , we provide an empirical measure of semantic relatedness between concepts. Our analysis
uncovers a universal structure underlying the sampled vocabulary across language groups …

… universal semantic primes as a vocabulary for semantic description we can achieve semantic
… translatable, as well as enabling the maximum possible resolution of semantic analysis. …

… largely on theoretical considerations rather than on empirical … the publication of Semantic
and Lexical Universals (Goddard … simple sentences formulated in lexical universals (such as "I …

… Empirical investigations into universal syntactic patterns have begun only recently, and a …
semantic explications in terms of universal syntactic patterns (äs well äs universal semantic …

… semantics based primarily on historical data from English supplemented by very similar
evidence … ) meanings of words using the semantic-differential approach developed by Osgood. …

… lexical universals provides a practical procedure for arriving at coherent interpretations of
unfamiliar lexical … out that NSM semantics in general, and its empirical findings about lexical …

… 'Lexical Squares' Further examples of universal semantic phenomena arise once we …
empirical, as opposed to how much a priori content there is to proposed semantic universals…