Semantic Universals and Universal Semantics

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Universals and Semantics / Zaefferer, Dietmar -- Part I: General Questions -- Linguistic Universals in Logical Semantics / Benthem, Johan van -- Is Semantics Universal, Or Isn't It ? On the Relation of Language, Thought and Semantic Structure / Immler, Manfred -- The Problem of Semantic Incomparability / Bechert, Johannes -- Part II: Basic Issues -- Predication and Sentence Constitution in Universal Perspective / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen -- Aristotle Goes to Arizona, And Finds a Language without "And" / Gil, David -- Part III: Special Topics -- Quantity and Number / Link, Godehard -- Some Remarks on Polarity Items / Krifka, Manfred -- Concessive Relations as the Dual of Causal Relations / König, Ekkehard -- Conditionals and Unconditionals: Cross-linguistic and Logical Aspects / Zaefferer, Dietmar -- List of Authors and Addresses -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects