The article summarizes the goals and the current state of the Catalogue of sematic shifts
(CSSh), its primary notions being those of a semantic shift, which is understood as a relation …

The research was intended to explore the change of emotion in the translation of Kṛṣṇa
text. It was regarded mapping of emotion change based on the phenomenon found in the …

Cliff Goddard is Professor of Linguistics at Griffith University. He is a proponent of the Natural
Semantic Metalanguage approach to semantics and its sister theory, the cultural scripts …

This chapter is about the meanings of emotion words in everyday language. It employs a
well-established approach to semantic description, the Natural Semantic Metalanguage …

The discussion will be organized by following the functional layers of an NP, a structure that I
have dubbed the “nominal onion” elsewhere (Löbner 2013: 90). The functional structure is …

The article deals with the methodology and techniques of lexical typological studies. It
focuses on the cross-linguistic analysis of semantic areas that are deeply involved in …

The main goal of paper is to show how NSM findings about lexical universals (semantic
primes) can be applied to semantic analysis in little-described languages. It is argued that …

This chapter argues that the cross-linguistic study of subjective experience as expressed,
described and construed in language cannot be set on a sound footing without the aid of a …

Word meaning has played a somewhat marginal role in early contemporary philosophy of
language, which focused more on the compositional processes whereby words combine to …

This paper addresses one of the most controversial issues in cultural anthropology: the
conceptual foundations of kinship and the apparent inevitability of ethnocentrism in kinship …