Colourful psi’s sleep furiously: Depicting emotional states in some African languages

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 57-83

  Dimmendaal, Gerrit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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EID: 84989392616     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.10.12.04dim     Document Type: Article

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