Semantic change and cognition

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 123-166

  Györi, GÁbor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

cognition conventionalization; metaphor; polysemy; semantic change; usage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937380576     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2002.012     Document Type: Article

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