Conceptual primes in human languages and their analogues in animal communication and cognition

Language Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 413-441

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Cognition; Natural semantic meta language; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042593907     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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