Pawley, Andrew (1994). Kalam exponents of lexical and semantic primitives. In Cliff Goddard, & Anna Wierzbicka (Eds.), Semantic and lexical universals: Theory and empirical findings (pp. 387-422). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/slcs.25.19paw
For most of the proposed primitives it is not hard to find one or more Kalam equivalents. Most concepts on the list of primitives have one or more translation equivalents. However, there are a few problematic cases, namely those in which: (a) Kalam has two partial equivalents (WANT); (b) Kalam has a translation equivalent but this term has a more general meaning which subsumes the putative primitive (‘mental predicates’, especially KNOW, FEEL, and SAY; IF). The question arises in these cases whether the general meaning is properly analysed into a number of distinct senses, one of which coincides with the primitive, or whether it is better left unanalysed with specific interpretations determined by pragmatic factors.
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