Lcsh: Semantics, syntax and specificity

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 17-30

  Svenonius, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Library of congress subject headings; Semantics; Specificity; Subject heading languages; Syntactics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745025416     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v29n01_02     Document Type: Article

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