Typological approaches to lexical semantics

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 159-185

  Koptjevskaja Tamm, Maria ^a   Vanhove, Martine ^b,d   Koch, Peter ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INALCO   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

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EID: 51249141809     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LINGTY.2007.013     Document Type: Review

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