Streams of words: Hydrological lexicon in Jahai

Language Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 182-199

  Burenhult, Niclas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Jahai; Lexical semantics; Loanwords; Metaphor; Motion verbs; Place names

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949140144     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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