caa a22 4500 378934554 CHVBK 20180305123637.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040525xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/thli.29.3.263 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/thli.29.3.263 Matthewson Lisa 1 University of British Columbia. Is the meta-language really natural? [Elektronische Daten] [Lisa Matthewson] 1. On the status of the primitives It is interesting and surely non-coincidental that the semantic primitives proposed by NSM researchers include some of the most hotly-debated topics in the formal semantics literature. There is a large body of formal semantic research (too large to be cited here) on each of the following NSM primitives: indexical pronouns such as I and you, demonstratives like this, quantifiers such as something, all, many, and one, modals like can, propositional attitude verbs like know and think, adjectives such as good and bad, the predicates have and (there) is, the connectives because, when, and if. Other proposed primitives such as before, after, the same, like, and kind (of) have also been the subject of discussion and debate. Indeed, there may not be a single proposed semantic primitive which fails to strike formal semanticists as extremely complex. Thus, it is difficult for us to accept the NSM claim that primitives such as i, you, someone, this, think, and want are ‘simple words' and that they are ‘intuitively comprehensible and self-explanatory' (Durst, p. 2). © Walter de Gruyter Theoretical Linguistics Walter de Gruyter 29/3(2004-05-25), 263-274 0301-4428 29:3<263 2004 29 thli https://doi.org/10.1515/thli.29.3.263 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/thli.29.3.263 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Matthewson Lisa 1 University of British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical Linguistics Walter de Gruyter 29/3(2004-05-25), 263-274 0301-4428 29:3<263 2004 29 thli CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter