Categories in Mind and Categories in Language: Do Classifier Categories Influence Conceptual Structures?

Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Imai, Mutsumi ^a   Saalbach, Henrik ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chinese; Classifier grammar systems; Cognition; Japanese; Language thought interface; Linguistic categories; Whorf

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920615315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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