The Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to linguistic meaning

Theoretical Linguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 157-200

  Durst, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 33746793406     PISSN: 03014428     EISSN: 16134060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/thli.29.3.157     Document Type: Article

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