Abstract

In his recent interview with Ray Jackendoff (2006), Istvan Kecskes asked: “How do your ‘semantic primitives’ relate to Wierzbicka's ‘semantic primes’ described in her natural semantic metalanguage [NSM] theory (Wierzbicka 1996)?” After an acknowledgment that “Wierzbicka has offered many insightful discussions of word meaning,” Jackendoff more or less dismissed NSM semantics. “Conceptual Semantics,” (i.e., his own approach) he said, “is concerned with how linguistic utterances are related to human cognition, where cognition is a human capacity that is to a considerable degree independent of language (…). Wierzbicka, by contrast, stays very close to the linguistic ground. She analyzes words simply in terms of other words, so she never establishes any connection with cognitive capacities outside language.”

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