NSM analyses of the semantics of physical qualities sweet, hot, hard, heavy, rough, sharp in cross-linguistic perspective

Studies in Language

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 765-800

  Goddard, Cliff ^a   Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 51249147296     PISSN: 03784177     EISSN: 15699978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sl.31.4.03god     Document Type: Article

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