DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



LemmaSNSD
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaBickerton (1981)
TitoloRoots of Language
Sinonimispecific-nonspecific distinction (inglese) 
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[…] the specific-nonspecific distinction has as its cerebral foundation the differential storage of percepts and concepts; if this is so, then the SNSD must represent one of the oldest (phylogenetically speaking) of semantic primes. If it is old, it must (by the infrastructural hypothesis proposed in our discussion of color terms) be strong […].
- Bickerton (1981), Pag. 248