Polysemy and the lexicon

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 51-80

  Taylor, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Compositionality; Construction; Creativity; Idiom; Lexicon; Metonymy; Network; Polyseme; Polysemy

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349109123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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