Plant names and folk taxonomies: Frameworks for ethnosemiotic inquiry

Semiotica

Volumn 167, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-11

  Herman, David ^a   Moss, Susan ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cognitive anthropology; Cognitive linguistics; Ethnobotany; Folk taxonomies; Lexicography; Onomastics

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249150535     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/SEM.2007.069     Document Type: Article

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