Semantic molecules and semantic complexity (with special reference to "environmental" molecules)

Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-155

  Goddard, Cliff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lexical semantics; NSM; Semantic molecules; Semantic primes; Semantic universals

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449269235     PISSN: 18779751     EISSN: 1877976X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.8.1.05god     Document Type: Review

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