The grammatical encoding of “thinking” in Amharic

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 195-219

  Amberber, Mengistu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amharic; conceptual primitives; know; natural semantic metalanguage; polysemy; think; understand

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248710082     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2003.008     Document Type: Article

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