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Semantics

Index of SIL publications on Semantics listed by country.

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General works

• ACHARD, Michel, author. 1996. "Complement construal in French: a cognitive perspective."
• BANKER, John E., author; CALLOW, John C., editor. 1987. A semantic structure analysis of Titus.
• BARNWELL, Katharine, author. 1975. Introduction à la sémantique et à la traduction.
• BARNWELL, Katharine, author. 2003. "Introduction to semantics and translation with special reference to Bible translation."
• BEEKMAN, John, author. 1970. Propositions and their relations within a discourse.
• BEEKMAN, John; CALLOW, John C.; KOPESEC, Michael F., authors. 1981. The semantic structure of written communication.  
• BEEKMAN, John; SMITH, Robert E., authors. 1981. A literary-semantic analysis of Second Timothy.
• BOLYANATZ, Alexander H., author. 1998. "Messages from symbols that we often miss."
• BOSWELL, Freddy, author. 1995. Review of: Linguistics and the language professions, Rudolf Botha and others, editors.
• BRATCHER, Robert G., author. 1992. That troublesome kaι in Matthew 21:5.
• BRUCE, Leslie P., author. 2003. "The language of love in Melanesia: a study of positive emotions."
• BUGENHAGEN, Robert D., author. 2000. Review of: Semantic analysis: a practical introduction, by Cliff Goddard.
• CALLOW, John C., author. 1982. A semantic structure analysis of Second Thessalonians.
• CALLOW, John C., author. 1983. A semantic structure analysis of Colossians.
• CALLOW, Kathleen, author. 1970. More on propositions and their relations within a discourse.
• CALLOW, Kathleen, author. 1990. "Muddy hands need clear heads: or, a tale of two interfaces."
• CALLOW, Kathleen, author. 1998. Man and Message: A Guide to Meaning-Based Text Analysis.  
• CALLOW, Kathleen, author. 2003. "Man and message: a guide to meaning-based text analysis."
• CARSON, D. A., author. 1987. The limits of dynamic equivalence in Bible translation.
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1992. Review of: Semantics and cognition, by Ray Jackendoff.
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1992. Review of: Women, fire, and dangerous things: what categories reveal about the mind, by George Lakoff.
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1998. Review of: Diachronic prototype semantics: a contribution to historical lexicology, by D. Geeraerts.
• DAVIS, Daniel, author. 1990. The semantic content of ‘Son of Man’.
• DEIBLER, Ellis W., author. 1985. "Semantic structure analysis in Bible translation."
• DELANCEY, Scott; PAYNE, Thomas E., authors. 1987. Semantics master bibliography.
• DOTY, Marjorie, author. 1990. ‘Amazed’ in Mark.
• ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1971. The structure of some semantic sets of W. B. Manobo.
• FILIP, Hana, author. 1996. "Boundedness in temporal and spatial domains."
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2005. "Review of: What did Jesus mean? Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the parables in simple and universal human concepts. By Anna Wierzbicka (Oxford University Press, 2001).."  
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2006. Review of: English: meaning and culture, by Anna Wierzbicka.  
• FRIBERG, Barbara; FRIBERG, Timothy, editors. 1981. Analytical Greek New Testament.
• FUNK, Marilyn A., author. 1978. Teaching literal and figurative meanings using food vocabulary.
• GORDON, Kent, author. 1988. Review of: A theory of semiotics, by Umberto Eco.
• GRAY, David, author. 2007. "A new analysis of a key Hebrew term: the semantics of "galah" (`to go into exile’)."
• GREENLEE, J. Harold, author. 1989. Review of: Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament based on semantic domains (vol. 1, Introduction and domains; vol. 2, Indices), Johannes P. Louw and Eugene A. Nida, editors.
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1963. Review of: The semantics of biblical language, by James Barr.
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1980. Systematic analysis of meaning.
• GUTT, Ernst-August, author. 1988. Review of: Semantic constraints on relevance, by Diane Blakemore.
• GYÖRI, Gábor, author. 1996. "Historical aspects of categorization."
• HARRIS, Marvin, author. 1990. "Emics and etics revisited."
• HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1990. "Introduction: a dialogue between Kenneth Pike and Marvin Harris on emics and etics."
• HEALEY, Alan; HEALEY, Phyllis M., authors. 1992. Doing semantics.
• HESS, H. Harwood, author. 1993. "Towards a referential base."
• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1999. Review of: Linguistic semantics: An introduction, by John Lyons.
• HORTON, Bruce, author. 1996. "What are copula verbs?."
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 2001. Review of: Meaning in language: an introduction to semantics and pragmatics, by D. Alan Cruse.
• INGLIS, Douglas, author. 2001. Review of: Toward a cognitive semantics, I and II, by Leonard Talmy.
• JACKSON, Eric M., author. 2008. Review of: Argument realization, by Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav.  
• KEMMER, Suzanne E.; SHYLDKROT, Hava Bat-Zeev, authors. 1996. "The semantics of ‘empty prepositions’ in French."
• KOPESEC, Michael F., author. 1979. The integration of semantic and pragmatic concerns in a hierarchical framework.
• KOPESEC, Michael F., author. 1988. "A translator’s perspective on meaning."
• KUHN, Hanna, author. 1989. "Why are Job’s opponents still made to eat broom-root?."
• LARSON, Mildred L., author. 1992. "Translating secondary functions of grammatical structure."
• LETT, James, author. 1990. "Emics and etics: Notes on the epistimology of anthropology."
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 2009. Review of: A theory of ellipsis, by Marjorie J. McShane.  
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1983. "The search for context."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1983. Review of: Communicative acts and shared knowledge in natural discourse, by Marga Kreckel.
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1984. "Reshaping linguistics: context and content."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1985. "The texture of discourse and semantic salience."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1987. "The semantics of the storyline in East and West Africa."
• LOOS, Victor E., author. 1978. Philosophical aspects of semantics.
• LOOS, Victor E., author. 1978. Presupposition: a preliminary investigation.
• MAHAFFY, Samuel G., author. 1979. The structure of abstracts.
• MANN, William C., author. 2001. Presumptive meanings, by Stephen C. Levinson.
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1991. Review of: Information-based syntax and semantics, volume 1: Fundamentals (CLSI lecture notes number 13), by Carl Pollard and Ivan A. Sag.
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 2000. "Symbol, symbolism."
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 2010. "Prototype semantics and the emergence of motor vehicle categories."  
• MCKERRAS, Ross, author. 1986. "Some ins and outs of ‘come’ and ‘go’."
• MEL’CUK, Igor A., author. 1987. From meaning to text: Semantic representation in the meaning-text linguistic theory and a new type of monlingual dictionary.
• MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1992. Review of: From brightness to hue: an explanatory model of color-category evolution, by Robert E. McLaury.
• MOE, Ronald, author. 2002. "Producing dictionaries using semantic domains."
• MYERS, Doris E., author. 1988. "Irony and humor in the Gospel of John."
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2002. Review of: Historical semantics and cognition, Andreas Blank and Peter Koch, editors.
• NIDA, Eugene A., author. 1951. "A system for the description of semantic elements."
• PAYNE, David L., author. 2006. "Color terms."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 2001. The explanation of argument structure: lexicalization or discourse use?.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 2003. Review of: Dimensions of possession by Irene Baron, Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen, editors.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1955. "Meaning and hypostasis."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1961. "Language and meaning: strange dimensions of truth."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1964. "Beyond the sentence."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1977. Linguistic complexity in a two-page instruction sheet.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1978. Levels of observer relationship in verbal art.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1990. "Pike’s reply to Harris."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1995. "A holistic semantics: The semantics of phonology, grammar, and reference."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1996. "Linguistic ‘Venn Diagrams’ with their ‘formative blocks’ in morphology, semantics, and historical reconstruction."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1998. "Semantics in a holistic context - with preliminary convictions and approaches."
• ROGERS, Elinor MacDonald, author. 1989. A semantic structure analysis of Galatians.
• RUBBA, Johanna, author. 1996. "The interaction of folk models and syntax: case choice after prepositional verbs of cognition in German."
• SILZER, Peter J., author. 1984. Review of: Semantics of New Testament Greek, by J. P. Louw.
• SIM, Ronald J., author. 1996. Review of: Formal semantics: An introduction, by Ronnie Cann.
• SWARTZ, Stephen M., author. 1992. Praising or prophesying: What were the Corinthians doing?.
• THOMSON, Gregory, author. 1990. What sort of meaning is preserved in translation? Part four: Presupposition.
• TITRUD, Kermit, author. 1991. The overlooked και in the Greek New Testament.
• TITRUD, Kermit, author. 1992. "The function of ‘kaí’ in the Greek New Testament and an application to 2 Peter."
• TUGGY, David H., author. 1993. "Ambiguity, polysemy, and vagueness."
• UNGER, Christoph, author. 2001. Review of: Presuppositions and anaphora, by Emiel Krahmer.
• VERHAAR, John W. M., author. 1991. On ambiguity: a diary entry.
• WARES, Alan C., author. 1992. Il y avait une fois ... or ainsi dit le Seigneur...?.
• WENDLAND, Ernst R., author. 1991. What is truth? semantic density and the language of the Johannine epistles with special reference to 2 John.
• WHITEHEAD, Carl R., author. 2001. Review of: Direct reference, indexicality, and propositional attitudes, Wolfgang Künne, Albert Newen and Martin Anduschus, editors.
• WILT, Timothy L., author. 1992. "Lexical repetition in Jonah."
• YA-MING Shen, author. 1996. "The semantics of the Chinese verb ‘come’."
• ZWARTS, Joost, author. 1999. Review of: Algebraic semantics in language and philosophy, by Godehard Link.
• ZWARTS, Joost, author. 2000. Review of: Parts and wholes in semantics, by Friederike Moltmann.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• WIESEMANN, Ursula, author. 1998. Review of: Réalisations argumentales et classes de verbes en Fɔngbè, by Anne-Marie Brousseau.

Burkina Faso

• BLASS, Regina, author. 1990. Constraints on relevance, a key to particle typology.

Cameroon

• DJEMADJIOUDJIEL, Noël; WIESEMANN, Ursula, authors. 1981. "Prominence in Ngambay."
• HARRO, Gretchen, author. 1989. "Extensions verbales en yemba (bamileke-dschang)."
• HYMAN, Larry M.; WATTERS, John R., authors. 1984. "Auxiliary focus."
• PATMAN, Frankie, author. Available: 2007; Created: 1998. Syntactic encoding of informational distinctions in Nugunu.  
• WIESEMANN, Ursula, author. 1986. Manuel de sémantique et de traduction.

Côte d’Ivoire

• BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1978. "Semantics and syntax -- empirical evidence for establishing three base components."
• GOERLING, Fritz, author. 2000. Translation of ’grace’ in Jula of Côte d’Ivoire.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• BRADLEY, Karen M., author. 1994. Profile and spectrum analysis of ‘li-’ and ‘ka-’ in Zairian Swahili narrative discourse.
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2003. "Distal aspects in Bantu languages."

Ethiopia

• GUTT, Ernst-August, author. 1987. "What is the meaning we translate?."
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2000. "Markers of general interpretive use in Amharic and Swahili."
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1991. Review of: The native speaker is dead!, by Thomas Paikeday.
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1998. "Semantic shift on a geographical term."

Ghana

• CALLOW, John C., author. 1973. Two approaches to the analysis of meaning.
• CALLOW, Kathleen, author. 1988. Which comes first, man or message?.
• HEWER, Philip L., author. 1976. "A lexical approach to clause series in Kasem."
• HUNT, Geoffrey R., author. 1980. A logical development.
• STEELE, Mary, author. 1987. A semantic structure analysis of Ephesians 1.15-23.

Kenya

• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2000. "Markers of general interpretive use in Amharic and Swahili."
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2003. "Distal aspects in Bantu languages."
• OLE-KOTIKASH, Leonard; OLE-LEKUTIT, A. Keswe Mapena; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 2001. "A frame semantics approach to lexemic structure: uncovering the truth abut Maa a-síp."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 2003. "Maa color terms and their use as human descriptors."

Mali

• WOLTHUIS, Wilma M. C., author. 2006. Tamasheq prepositions: a semantic analysis of Tamasheq prepositions.

Mozambique

• HEINS, John H., author. 2001. Semantic structure analysis in Sena.
• HEINS, John H., author. 2003. "Análise de estrutura semântica da língua Sena."

Nigeria

• BURQUEST, Donald A., author. 1978. "Semantic parameters in Angas kinship terminology."
• THOMAS, Elaine, author. 1985. How to increase naturalness in translation by mother-tongue translators.

Togo

• KLAVER, Marquita, author. 1999. "A look at Ifɛ̀ connectives."
• KUHN, Hanna, author. 1989. When your children ask, ‘What is the meaning of this?’.

Americas

Brazil

• BOSWOOD, Joan, author. 1974. "Algumas funções de participante nas orações rikbaktsa."  
• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1979. "Componentes semânticos na terminologia de parentesco Guaraní."
• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1981. Review of: Syntax and semantics, vol. 12: Discourse and syntax, Talmy Givón, editor.
• HARRISON, Carl H., author. 1991. Are not two strouths for an assar bought?, Notes on the principles of Bible translation.

Canada

• FRANTZ, Donald G., author. 1968. Translation and underlying structure I: Relations.

Chile

• HARMELINK, Bryan L., author. 1987. "The uses and functions of mew in Mapudungun."

Colombia

• KINCH, Rodney A.; WALROD, Michael R.; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 1977. Semantics.
• URIBE, Hilda; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 1978. An application of the semantic differential to the analysis of meaning across language and culture.
• WALTER, Stephen L., author. 1976. Some psycho-physiological aspects of a theory of semantics.
• WALTER, Stephen L., author. 1978. A psychological approach to semantics.

Ecuador

• MOORE, Bruce R., author. 1973. Semantic components as geometric planes.

Guatemala

• LANGAN, Katherine, author. 1991. "Colocación léxica en poqomam oriental."
• MAYERS, Marvin K., author. 1982. "The speaker’s conceptual image of discourse."
• RICHMAN, Larry, author. 1980. The semantic value of the -aʼ and the -iʼ noun plurals in Cakchiquel.

Mexico

• BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A.; VOIGTLANDER, Katherine, authors. 1972. "Semology and transitivity in Eastern Otomi verbs."
• BASCOM, Burton; CASAD, Eugene H., authors. 2000. "’Mother’ in Northern Tepehuan."
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 2003. "Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors."
• DOOLEY, Robert A.; GRIMES, Joseph E.; LOWE, Ivan, authors. 1978. "Closed systems with complex restrictions."
• FRIES, Peter H.; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1985. "Slot in referential hierarchy in relation to Charles C. Fries’ view of language."
• GRIMES, Barbara F.; GRIMES, Joseph E., authors. 1962. "Semantic distinctions in Huichol (Uto-Aztecan) kinship."
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1981. El Huichol: apuntes sobre el léxico.
• HESS, H. Harwood, author. 1987. "Old English skewing."
• HESS, H. Harwood, author. 1987. "Translation and semantic assumptions."
• HESS, H. Harwood, author. 1989. Fidelity equivalence.
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1970. "Inclusive plural: a further look."
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1973. A preliminary semantic classification of temporal concepts.
• HOLLENBACH, Bruce E., author. 1969. A method for displaying semantic structure.
• KELLER, Kathryn C., author. 1973. Review of: Tzeltal numeral classifiers: a study in ethnographic semantics, by Brent Berlin.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1976. "A poem on disconnecting form and meaning."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1978. "Particularization versus generalization, and explanation versus prediction."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1981. "Nonsense in the service of sense."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1983. In rhetoric the passage from A to B is not equal to passage from B to A.
• TUGGY, David H., author. 1980. The Antigone constraint.
• TUGGY, David H., author. 2003. "The Nawatl verb 'kīsa: a case study in polysemy."
• WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1980. Sentence components in Southeastern Tepehuan.
• ZYLSTRA, Carol F., author. 1991. Anthropological considerations for the book of Luke.

Peru

• BENSON, Bruce, author. 2008. "'Sólo' siendo 'cortés'."
• BERGLI, Ågot; COOMBS, Heidi, editors. 2008. Estudios quechuas II.  
• HART, Raymond, author. 1963. "Semantic components of shape in Amarakaeri grammar."
• HINTZ, Daniel J., author. 1985. Psycho-semantic analysis of emotion and translation.
• LARSON, Mildred L., author. 1982. "Traducción y estructura semántica."
• LARSON, Mildred L., author; BURNS, Donald H.; MOLTKE, Rodolfo von, translators. 1989. La traducción basada en el significado.
• LORIOT, James, author. 1958. "On handling meanings in the vernacular."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1993. "Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages."
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1984. "Split S-marking and fluid S-marking revisited."
• TRIPP, Robert, author. 1976. "Diagrama reticular semantico de un texto Amarakaeri."  

Saint Lucia

• FRANK, David B., author. 1999. "The grammar of sentence conjunctions in St. Lucian French Creole."

Suriname

• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1975. "Sources of creole semantic structures."
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1977. Some thoughts on clauses.  
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1977. Speech acts and translation.  
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1979. Review of: Poet and peasant: a literary cultural approach to the parables in Luke, by Kenneth Ewing Bailey.
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1979. Review of: Semiology and parables: Exploration of the possibilities offered by structuralism for exegesis, Daniel Patte, editor.
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1980. "Metaphorical speech acts."
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1991. "Ndjuka organization of experience: African or universal?."

United States

• FRANTZ, Donald G., author. 1974. Generative semantics, an introduction.

Asia

China

• PELKEY, Jamin R., author. 2004. Phowa verbal semantics.

India

• TRAIL, Ronald L., author. 1973. "Semantic relations between whole propositions in English."  

Indonesia

• BAMBANG K., Purwo, author. 1978. The point-line dimension: a way of looking at some aspects of the referential system in Indonesian.
• ERICKSON, Carol J.; PIKE, Evelyn G., authors. 1976. "Semantic and grammatical structures in an Isirawa narrative."
• GRIMES, Charles E., author. 1987. Mapping a culture through networks of meaning.
• GRIMES, Charles E., author. 1990. Review of: The internal structure of Indonesian roots, Parts I and II, by Keith M. McCune.
• KANA, Marit, author. 1983. "The syntax and semantics of verbal prefixes in Bahasa Indonesia."
• MARYOTT, Kenneth R., author. 1977. "The semantics of focus in Sangihé."  
• MATSUMURA, Takashi, author. 1983. A semantic structure analysis of I Corinthians 5-7.
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1977. "Body image idioms in Irianese and Papua New Guinean languages."
• WESTRUM, Susan, author. 1976. "Chronological mapping as a useful tool in identifying semantic paragraph groupings in Berik, Irian Jaya, Indonesia."

Japan

• MANABE, Takashi, author. 1978. Topic-comment based linguistics model and its application to Greek and Japanese.

Korea, South

• FRANKLIN, Karl J., editor. 1978. Readings in semantics.
• HWANG, Shin Ja J., author. 1978. Componential analysis: Historical development and current situation.
• HWANG, Shin Ja J., author. 1978. The semantics of the Korean verb of existence.

Myanmar

• LAM Thang Khoi, author. 2002. "Conceptual analysis of Tedim Chin ’heart’ idioms."  

Nepal

• GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1969. "Three Gurung equivalents of English be."
• GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1973. Sememic and grammatical structures in Gurung (Nepal).
• GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1974. Sememic and grammatical structures in Gurung.  
• GORDON, Kent; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1973. "Paired semantic components, paired sentence reversals and the analysis of Dhangar (Kudux) discourse."
• GORDON, Kent; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1973. "Paired semantic components, paired sentence reversals and the analysis of Dhangar-Kudux discourse."  

Pakistan

• THOMSON, Gregory, author. 1988. What sort of meaning is preserved in translation?.
• THOMSON, Gregory, author. 1989. What sort of meaning is preserved in translation? Part two: Sense.

Philippines

• ALLEN, Janet L., author. 1978. "Kankanaey adjuncts."  
• BALLARD, D. Lee, author. 1977. "The semantic component ‘realization’ in Philippine languages."
• BALLARD, D. Lee, author. 1978. Inibaloi metaphors.
• DUBOIS, Carl D.; PIKE, Kenneth L.; UPTON, John, authors. 1980. "Constraints on complexity seen via fused vectors of an n-dimensional semantic space (Sarangani Manobo, Philippines)."
• ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1978. "Lexical systems in language teaching."
• HALE, Austin; HOHULIN, E. Lou; KILGOUR, Heather J., authors. 1981. Lexical sets and semantic neighborhoods.
• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1971. "Complex predicates in Keley-i Kallahan."
• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1983. Review of: Language, semantics and ideology, by Michel Pêcheux.
• HOHULIN, Richard M., author. 1987. Beyond relations between propositions.
• LORENZANA, Angela E., author. 2006. "Galit: the Filipino emotion word for ‘anger’."  
• MARYOTT, Kenneth R., author. 1977. "The semantics of focus in Sangihé."  
• MUNGER, Scott T., author. 1988. An analysis of the semantic structure of a Higaonon (Philippines) text.
• NEWELL, Leonard E., author. 1986. Lexicography notes.
• PORTER, Doris, author. 1977. "Figurative uses of ‘breath’ in Tboli."  

Thailand

• THOMAS, David D., author. 1972. Comments on sentences, propositions, and Notes on Translation 37.
• THOMAS, David D., author. 1977. Noun phrase components.  
• THOMAS, David D., author. 1985. Implied (presupposed) information.

Viet Nam

• FIPPINGER, Jay W., author. 1975. "Black Tai sentence types: a generative semantic approach."
• KINGKARN Thepkanjana; SUTHATIP Mueanjai, authors. 2009. "Semantic extension of the verb of giving in Vietnamese."  
• LY Toan Thang, author. 1999. "Representation of space in Vietnamese classifiers."  
• SOPHANA Srichampa, author. 2001. "Semantics of Vietnamese directional verbs."  

Pacific

Australia

• RAY, Michael J., author. 1982. Review of: Semantics: a bibliography, 1965-1978, by W. Terrance Gordon.

New Caledonia

• SCHOOLING, Stephen J., author. 1985. "More on Matthew’s brackets: a study of the function of time references in Matthew’s Gospel."

Papua New Guinea

• ANDERSON, Neil, author. 1989. "Folopa existential verbs."  
• AUSTING, John F.; AUSTING, June., authors. 1977. Semantics of Ömie discourse.
• BROWN, Robert, author. 1981. "Semantic aspects of some Waris predications."
• BUGENHAGEN, Robert D., author. 1986. "Possession in Mangap-Mbula: Its syntax and semantics."
• BUGENHAGEN, Robert D., author. 1993. "The semantics of irrealis in Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea. A cross-linguistic study."
• COLBURN, Michael A., author. 1981. "Erima disjunction."
• CONRAD, Robert J., author. Available: 2009; Created: 1995. A comparison of Mufian (Balif) and Filifita (Ilahita) phonology, grammar and semantics.  
• DEIBLER, Ellis W., author. 1969. "Sememics and translation."  
• EDONI, Gail, author. 1989. "‘Head and shoulders, knees and toes....’: The semantics of Dobuan body parts."  
• ERDMAN, Laurens B., author. 1991. A grammatical sketch of a Siar text from the perspective of two strata.
• EZARD, Bryan, author. 1978. "Insights on cohesion from Tawala."
• EZARD, Bryan, author. 1982. Tawala derivational prefixes: a semantic perspective.
• FARR, Cynthia J., author. 1976. "I don’t know whether I’m coming or going: a study of some usages of ‘come’ and ‘go’ in Korafe."  
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1974. Review of: Grammatical form and grammatical meaning: a tagmemic view of Fillmore’s deep structure case concepts, by J. T. Platt.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1978. Lexical range, idiom transfer, and related problems in Pidgin English to Kewa translation.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1981. "Creating technical expressions in the vernacular."
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1981. "Introduction and rationale."
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1989. Review of: English speech act verbs: a semantic dictionary, by Anna Wierzbicka, compiler.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1990. Review of: The semantics of grammar, by Anna Wierzbicka.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., editor. 1981. Syntax and semantics in Papua New Guinea languages.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J.; THOMAS, Steven Kambi, authors. 2006. Some Tok Pisin idioms.  
• HEALEY, Alan, author. 1968. "English idioms."  
• JOHNSTON, Raymond L., author. 1981. "Conceptualizing in Nakanai and English: a case study of grammatical categories."
• KWAN, Poh San, author. 1989. "The referential meanings of kema ‘liver’ in Mauwake."  
• LAEKA, Ali, author. 1989. "Cut—hit—break in Kalo."  
• LAUCK, Linda M., author. 1981. "Patep idioms."
• LITTERAL, Robert L., author. 1972. "Rhetorical predicates and time topology in Anggor."
• LITTERAL, Robert L., author. 1977. Features of semantic predicates.  
• LITTERAL, Shirley, author. 1981. "The semantic components of Anggor existential verbs."
• LOVING, Richard; THOMAS, David D., editors. 1977. Proceedings of the S.I.L. consultants seminar, Ukarumpa 1976.  
• MANABE, Takashi, author. 1978. Topic-comment based linguistics model and its application to Greek and Japanese.
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1977. "Body image idioms in Irianese and Papua New Guinean languages."
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1978. "On the origin of body image idioms in Tok Pisin."  
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1983. Review of: The semantics of metaphor, by Samuel R. Levin.
• NOEL, John C., author. 1975. Comparison of some idioms in Kiriwina and English.
• PHINNEMORE, Penny, author. 1988. "Coordination in Ono."
• RAY, Michael J., author. 1977. Areas of meaning and idioms.  
• ROBERTS, John R., author. 1998. "GIVE in Amele."
• ROBERTS, John R., author. 2001. "Impersonal constructions in Amele."
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