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Semantic description

Index of SIL publications on Semantic description listed by country.

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General works

• Anonymous. n.d.. On liars, logic, and linguists.
• DAVIS, Alice, author. Available: 2011; Created: 1974. The poem "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson analysed in two ways.
• HARMELINK, Bryan L., author. 2011. Exploring the Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic uses of וַיְהִי in Biblical Hebrew.  
• KING, Phil, author. 2010. Surrounded by bitterness: image schemas and metaphors for conceptualising distress in classical Hebrew.
• KING, Philip D., author. 2012. Surrounded by Bitterness: Image Schemas and Metaphors for Conceptualising Distress in Classical Hebrew.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Nigeria

• POHLIG, James, author. 1981. The Mbe verb: a description of the verb system of Mbe, a language of northern Cross River State, Nigeria.

Americas

Colombia

• COOK, Dorothy, author. Created: 1969-1974. Preliminary analysis of Coreguaje paragraph and sentence.
• SMITH, Richard Dean, author. 1976. Some constrastive features of Southern Barasano and Spanish.

Mexico

• BRIGGS, Elinor; STUBBLEFIELD, Morris, researchers. Available: 2011; Created: 1948-1950. 35 Mitla Zapotec Glossed Texts.
• CASAD, Eugene H., researcher. 2012. Vignettes of Cora Locatives.  
• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2011. The Seris and the Comcaac: Sifting fact from fiction about the names and relationships.  
• PRIDE, Kitty, researcher. 2011. Phonemic System Pressures on Borrowed Words.  
• PRIDE, Leslie, researcher. Available: 2011; Created: 1976. Tataltepec Chatino.
• ROBBINS, Frank E., researcher. 2012. Nasal Words in Quiotepec Chinantec [chq].  
• STEWART, Donald, researcher. Available: 2011; Created: 1966. Gramática de Mazahua.  

Peru

• HINTZ, Daniel J., author. 2011. Crossing aspectual frontiers: emergence, evolution, and interwoven semantic domains in South Conchucos Quechua discourse.  

Suriname

• AMEKA, Felix K.; ESSEGBEY, James; HUTTAR, George L., authors. 2007. "Gbe and other West African sources of Suriname creole semantic structures: Implications for creole genesis."  
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 2012. "The African lexical contribution to Ndyuka, Saramaccan, and other creoles: Implications for how creoles develop."  

Asia

Indonesia

• ARKA, I Wayan, author. 2008. "Classifiers in Rongga."
• KLAMER, Marian, author. 2008. "Split S in the Indonesian area: forms, semantics, geography."

Iran

• PAUL, Daniel, author. 2008. "The individuating function of the Persian "indefinite suffix"."

Malaysia

• KROEGER, Paul R., author. 2010. "The grammar of hitting, breaking, and cutting in Kimaragang Dusun."

Nepal

• HALE, Austin, author. 2011. "The modalities of Newār ‘mal’."  
• HALE, Austin, author. Available: 2012; Created: 1971-11-05. The etics of sememic predicate function (A first approximation).

Philippines

• BUNDAL, Ruby C., compiler. 2012. Kagayanen Collocations and Idioms.

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• ABBOTT, Stan, author. 1980. Interclausal Relations: A Semantic Analysis.  
• CHUNG, Chul-Hwa, author. Available: 2012; Created: 1999-04. Participant reference in Kuot narrative.  
• EZARD, Bryan, author. Available: 2012; Created: 1980-10. Far, far away: An analysis of Tawala adjectives based on the article “Where have all the adjectives gone?”.  
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2010. "Ukarumpa and Jerusalem : A tale of two cities?."  
• FRANKLIN, Karl J.; HARDIN, Karol J., authors. 2012. "Complaints in Kewa letters."
• KLEEF, Jacqueline van; KLEEF, Sjaak van, authors. 2012. "The use of a conceptual metaphor in the Siroi language of Papua New Guinea: Narrative is climbing a mountain."
• TUPPER, Ian, author. n.d.. Transitivity and noun phrase marking in Namia.