What is universal and what is language-specific in emotion words?: Evidence from biblical hebrew

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-129

  Myhill, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 84989395435     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.5.1.07myh     Document Type: Article

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