Parts of the body in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island

Language Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 221-240

  Levinson, Stephen C ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body part terms; Meronymy; Papuan languages; Partonomy; Semantic fields; Taboo vocabularies; Y l Dnye

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645167200     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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