Semantic Universals and Universal Semantics

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Universals and Semantics -- Part I: General Questions -- Linguistic Universals in Logical Semantics -- Is Semantics Universal, Or Isn't It ? On the Relation of Language, Thought and Semantic Structure -- The Problem of Semantic Incomparability -- Part II: Basic Issues -- Predication and Sentence Constitution in Universal Perspective -- Aristotle Goes to Arizona, And Finds a Language without "And" -- Part III: Special Topics -- Quantity and Number -- Some Remarks on Polarity Items -- Concessive Relations as the Dual of Causal Relations -- Conditionals and Unconditionals: Cross-linguistic and Logical Aspects -- List of Authors and Addresses -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects