Cross-linguistic categorisation of the body: Introduction

Language Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 137-147

  Enfield, Nick J ^a   Majid, Asifa ^a   van Staden, Miriam ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body part terms; Elicitation technique; Extensional meaning; Intensional meaning; Meronymy; Partonomy; Semantic fields; Semantic typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645160049     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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