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Wierzbicka, Anna (1991). Ostensive definitions and verbal definitions: Innate conceptual primitives and the acquisition of concepts. In Maciej Grochowski, & Daniel Weiss (Eds.), Words are physicians for an ailing mind (pp. 467-480). Munich: Otto Sagner.
A more recent publication building on this one is chapter 7 (pp. 211-233) of:
Wierzbicka, Anna (1996). Semantics: Primes and universals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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