Protolanguage reconstructed

Interaction Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 100-116

  Smith, Andrew D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inference; Language evolution; Meaning; Protolanguage; Reanalysis; Semantic reconstructability

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749087224     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.9.1.08smi     Document Type: Article

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