Words for Parts of the Body

Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Majid, Asifa ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body parts; Language; Naming; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920569330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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