Thinking across languages and cultures: Six dimensions of variation

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 109-140

  Goddard, Cliff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

cognition; natural semantic metalanguage; polysemy; semantics; thinking; typological semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844376116     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2003.005     Document Type: Article

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