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(2003) NSM

Published on May 12, 2017. Last updated on September 10, 2018.

Durst, Uwe (2003). About NSM: A general reply. Theoretical Linguistics, 29(3), 295-303. DOI: 10.1515/thli.29.3.295

This paper takes issue with several of the claims made by respondents to the target paper in the same issue of Theoretical Linguistics. The following questions are addressed: 1. Is NSM ‘scientific’? 2. Do semantic primitives have to be lexical universals? 3. How do primitives differ from their exponents? 4. In what sense are NSM primes “primitive”? 5. Are logical expressions decomposable? 6. Are paraphrases an adequate form of semantic description?

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