Tiriyó body part terms

Language Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 262-279

  Meira, Sérgio ^a,b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^c Faculteit der Letteren/TCIA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body part terms; Cariban languages; Meronymy; Partonomy; Semantic fields; Tiriy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645139459     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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