REVIEW ARTICLE: WHAT ABOUT SEMANTICS? BY H.M. THIPA, PUBLISHED IN THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES, 1982 (1), pp. 70–81

Abstract

This review shows that the author's attempt to indicate the semantic relationship between the members of a small category of words which he calls “verbs of judging” has been unsuccessful. This is partially due to a lack of a proper theoretical framework according to which the meaning of words can be defined, and partially to the failure to keep linguistic and non-linguistic facts apart in his argumentation.