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Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane. "An Explanation of the Veridical Uniformity Universal." Journal of Semantics 37, no. 1 (2019): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffz019.

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Abstract A semantic universal, which we here dub the Veridical Uniformity Universal, has recently been argued to hold of responsive verbs (those that take both declarative and interrogative complements). This paper offers a preliminary explanation of this universal: verbs satisfying it are easier to learn than those that do not. This claim is supported by a computational experiment using artificial neural networks, mirroring a recent proposal for explaining semantic universals of quantifiers. This preliminary study opens up many avenues for future work on explaining semantic universals more ge

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Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane, and Jakub Szymanik. "Learnability and semantic universals." Semantics and Pragmatics 12, no. 4 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.12.4.

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Langacker, Ronald W. "Universals of Construal." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 447. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1532.

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Kozhemyakova, Ekaterina Arkadevna, Yury Nikolaevich Isaev, Aleksey Rafailovich Gubanov, and Mariia Evgenevna Petukhova. "Semantic universals in the evolution of colour terms in the Proto-Slavic and Proto-Turkic languages." Philology. Issues of Theory and Practice 16, no. 8 (2023): 2432. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/phil20230381.

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The aim of the research is to identify semantic universals in the evolution of colour terms in the Proto-Slavic and Proto-Turkic languages. The paper analyses the semantics of the Indo-European proto-forms of Proto-Slavic colour terms and the Altaic proto-forms of Proto-Turkic colour terms. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that a comparative analysis of the semantics of the oldest proto-forms of colour terms belonging to two different language families is carried out. Traditionally, these names are considered an example illustrating the national specifics of the reflecti

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Goddard, Cliff, and Anna Wierzbicka. "Semantic fieldwork and lexical universals." Studies in Language 38, no. 1 (2014): 80–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.38.1.03god.

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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 using lexical universals as a vocabulary for semantic analysis allows one to formulate meaning descriptions that are rigorous, cognitively authentic, maximally translatable, and free from Anglocentrism. A second goal is to shed light on methodological issues in semantic fieldwork by interrogating some controversial claims about the Dalabon and Pirahã languages. We argue that reductive paraphrase into lexical universal

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Croft, William. "Semantic universals in classifier systems." WORD 45, no. 2 (1994): 145–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00437956.1994.11435922.

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Wierzbicka, Anna. "Lexical universals of kinship and social cognition." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, no. 5 (2010): 403–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x10001433.

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AbstractJones recognizes the existence of “primitives of conceptual structures,” out of which “local representations of kinship are constructed.” NSM semantics has identified these primitives through a cross-linguistic search for lexical universals (“NSM” stands for Natural Semantic Metalanguage and also for the corresponding linguistic theory). These empirical universals provide, I argue, a better bridge between cognitive anthropology and evolutionary psychology than the abstract constructs of OT, with dubious claim to conceptual reality.

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Wu, Shiyu. "The Semantic Universal of Quantifiers." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 56, no. 1 (2024): 185–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/56/20241606.

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This topic is going to discuss semantic universals for quantifiers. Semantics, sometimes referred to as semantics, is the study of denotation, meaning, or truth, as well as the study of linguistic meaning from a linguistic perspective. The meaning of the language unit itself is known as semantics, or semanteme, which emphasizes the objective presence of meaning and the requirement that it be distinct and part of the linguistic meaning. Consider the quantifier "all" and some as an illustration. By "all birds can fly," this research imply that all birds possess the capacity to soar. Because ever

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Szabolcsi, Anna. "Cross-linguistic insights in the theory of semantics and its interface with syntax." Theoretical Linguistics 50, no. 1-2 (2024): 125–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2009.

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Abstract This paper highlights a small selection of cases where cross-linguistic insights have been important to big questions in the theory of semantics and the syntax/semantics interface. The selection includes (i) the role and representation of Speaker and Addressee in the grammar; (ii) mismatches between form and interpretation motivating high-placed silent operators for functional elements; and (iii) the explanation of semantic universals, including universals pertaining to inventories, in terms of learnability and the trade-off between informativeness and simplicity.

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Goddard, Cliff. "Lexico-Semantic Universals: A Critical Overview." Linguistic Typology 5, no. 1 (2001): 1–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lity.5.1.1.

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Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane, and Jakub Szymanik. "Ease of learning explains semantic universals." Cognition 195 (February 2020): 104076. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104076.

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Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane. "Quantifiers in Natural Language: Efficient Communication and Degrees of Semantic Universals." Entropy 23, no. 10 (2021): 1335. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23101335.

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While the languages of the world vary greatly, they exhibit systematic patterns, as well. Semantic universals are restrictions on the variation in meaning exhibit cross-linguistically (e.g., that, in all languages, expressions of a certain type can only denote meanings with a certain special property). This paper pursues an efficient communication analysis to explain the presence of semantic universals in a domain of function words: quantifiers. Two experiments measure how well languages do in optimally trading off between competing pressures of simplicity and informativeness. First, we show t

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Balaban, Olena, Tetiana Aleksakhina, Tetiana Davydova, Marianna Goltsova, and Oleksii Tsepkalo. "The epistemology-oriented conceptual model of cognitive-semantic universals in related languages." Multidisciplinary Science Journal 6 (May 7, 2024): 2024ss0726. http://dx.doi.org/10.31893/multiscience.2024ss0726.

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The analytical study of the processes of thinking and awareness of reality is positioned as an actualized psychological direction in linguistics, which arose as a result of the logical transformation of traditional logicism and formalism in the course of the development of speech activity. The purpose of the article is to study the epistemologically oriented conceptual model of cognitive-semantic universals in related languages. In the course of the study, it was found that the previous historical stage was characterized by ignoring the influence of psychophysiological aspects. It has been det

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Jurafsky, Dan. "Universals in the Semantics of the Diminutive." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 423. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1531.

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Hollmann, Willem B. "From language-specific constraints to implicational universals." Ditransitivity 14, no. 1 (2007): 57–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.14.1.05hol.

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This article seeks to shed more light on the well-studied, yet still challenging, dative alternation. It starts from the cognitive-typological suggestion of Croft (2001, 2003) that language-internal variation is subject to the same constraints as cross-linguistic variation (the semantic map model), and that careful language-specific research may therefore reveal facts about language in general. I argue that there is a parallel between dativisability and passivisability. Then, using a sample of active tokens from the British National Corpus of ditransitive give in both the indirect-object and d

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Regier, Terry. "Two Predicted Universals in the Semantics of Space." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 479. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1529.

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Yang, Ziyi. "The Universal Meaning and Trend of Semantics." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 56, no. 1 (2024): 242–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/56/20241676.

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Semantic universals, as a core concept in linguistics, refer to the commonalities and regularities of different languages in expressing meaning. It covers the meaning properties and laws that are prevalent in linguistic phenomena. Since linguistics has become an independent discipline, semantic universality has been an important area for its in-depth exploration. This phenomenon attracted attention as early as the time of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, while the development of modern linguistics provides us with more in-depth and systematic means of research. This paper will focus on

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Louwrens, L. J. "Northern Sotho colour terms and semantic universals." South African Journal of African Languages 13, no. 4 (1993): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1993.10586976.

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Gil, David. "Tagalog Semantics." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 390. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1522.

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KOVTIUKH, Svitlana, and Kostiantyn ORIEKHOV. "THE INTERPRETATION OF SYSTEMIC LEXICO-SEMANTIC UNIVERSALS: A DIALECTIC APPROACH." MOVOZNAVSTVO 340, no. 1 (2025): 52–67. https://doi.org/10.33190/0027-2833-340-2025-1-004.

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In the last half of the 20th and early 21st centuries there appeared a lot of thorough research on linguistic universology, which gradually acquired the characteristics of a separate linguistic discipline. On the one hand, there are scientific investigations that study phenomena of the lexical-semantic level common to all languages, on the other hand, not enough attention has been paid to universal principles and parameters of the systematicity of lexical-semantic paradigms, categories, and phenomena based on the dialectical principles of the world development. The relevance of the publication

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Croft, William. "A Noun is a Noun is a Noun – Or is It? Some Reflections on the Universality of Semantics." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 369. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1494.

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Butt, Miriam. "A Reanalysis of Long Distance Agreement in Urdu." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1495.

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Fukushima, Kazuhiko. "A Typology in the Higher-Order Unification Approach to Ellipsis: The Implications of Japanese Post-Verbal Expressions." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 381. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1496.

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Reed, Lisa. "An Aspectual Analysis of French Demonstrative ce." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 300. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1497.

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Legendre, Géraldine, William Raymond, and Paul Smolensky. "An Optimality-Theoretic Typology of Case and Grammatical Voice Systems." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 464. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1498.

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Sikkenga, Elizabeth. "Asia Minor Greek: Contact-Induced Change Retention." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 323. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1499.

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Deane, Paul. "At, by, to, and past: An Essay in Multimodal Image Theory." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1500.

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Achard, Michel. "Causative Structures in French: Word Order Following faire, laisser, and forcer." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1501.

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Ohta, Kaoru, and Kuo-ming Sung. "Defining the Affectedness Condition." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 268. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1502.

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Shi, Dingxu. "Discourse Topic Continuity and Syntactic Reduction." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1503.

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Cienki, Alan. "Experiencers, Possessors, and Overlap Between Russian Dative and u + Genitive." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1504.

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Kathman, David. "Expletive Verb Marking in Abkhaz." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 193. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1505.

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Martínez-Gil, Fernando. "Galician Nasal Velarization as a Case Against Structure-Preservation." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 254. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1506.

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McCawley, James D. "Gapping with Shared Operators." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1507.

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Zubin, David A., and Mitsuaki Shimojo. "How “General” are General Classifiers? With Special Reference to ko and tsu in Japanese." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 490. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1508.

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Keenan, Edward L. "Identifying Anaphors." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 503. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1509.

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Davies, William D. "Javanese Adversatives, the 1-Advancement Exclusiveness Law and Mapping Theory." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1510.

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Jelinek, Eloise. "Languages without Determiner Quantification." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 404. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1511.

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Guy, Gregory R. "Lexical Phonology and the Problem of Variation." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1512.

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Koenig, Jean-Pierre. "Linking Constructions vs. Linking Rules: Evidence from French." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1513.

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Hubbard, Kathleen A. "Mapping Phonological Structure to Phonetic Timing: Moras and Duration in Two Bantu Languages." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 182. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1514.

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Ladusaw, William A. "Negation, Indefinites, and the Jespersen Cycle." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 437. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1515.

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Filip, Hana. "On Genericity: A Case Study in Czech." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1516.

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Bach, Emmon. "On the Semantics of Polysynthesis." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1517.

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Steriade, Donca. "Orality and Markedness." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 334. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1518.

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Liang, Anita. "Pauses in Face-to-Face and Telephone Conversations." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 232. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1519.

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Cotter, Colleen. "Prosodic Aspects of Broadcast News Register." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1520.

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Patrick, Peter L., and Bonnie McElhinny. "Speakin’ and Spokin’ in Jamaica: Conflict and Consensus in Sociolinguistics." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1521.

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Petrucci, Peter R. "The Areal Distribution of a Slavic Language Shift Feature." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1523.

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Bucholtz, Mary. "The Mixed Discourse Genre as a Social Resource for Participants." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1524.

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