Near synonyms as co-extensive categories: 'High' and 'tall' revisited

Language Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-284

  Taylor, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Co extensive categories; Colour; MacLaury, Robert; Semantic relations; Synonymy; Vantage theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038713872     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(02)00018-9     Document Type: Article

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