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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Research for this book was supported by a grant from the Australian Research
Council, which enabled me to obtain valuable research assistance throughout this
project. I would like to express my gratitude to Jean Harkins, Lisette Frigo, and Tim
Curnow, who at different times have worked as my research assistants. I owe a
special debt of gratitude to Jean Harkins, who was associated with this project
longer than anyone else and with whom I had countless invaluable discussions. I
would also like to thank those colleagues who at various stages discussed the
contents of the book with me and offered valuable comments, criticisms, and
suggestions: Felix Ameka, Jura Apresjan, Andrzej Bogusławski, Bob Dixon, Cliff
Goddard, Igor Mel'čuk, and Tim Shopen. Thanks are also due to Ellalene Seymour
for her expert and patient typing of successive drafts.Some portions of this book first appeared, in different form, as articles in
journals. I thank the publishers for permission to include revised and expanded
versions of the following publications:
"Soul and mind: Linguistic evidence for ethnopsychology and cultural history", American
Anthropologist, vol. 91, 1989.
"Human emotions: Universal or culture-specific?" American Anthropologist, vol. 88, 1986.
"Prototypes in semantics and pragmatics: Explicating attitudinal meanings in terms of pro-
totypes", Linguistics, vol. 27, 1989.
"Kinship semantics: Lexical universals as a key to psychological reality", Anthropological
Linguistics, vol. 29, 1987.
"Semantics and the interpretation of cultures: The meaning of 'alternate generations' devices
in Australian languages", Man, vol. 21, 1986.
"Does language reflect culture? Evidence from Australian English", Language in Society, vol.
15, 1986.

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