Semantic primes and grammatical categories

Australian Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-41

  Goddard, Cliff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 85026061385     PISSN: 07268602     EISSN: 14692996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07268609708599543     Document Type: Article

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96. My thanks to Jane Simpson and Anna Wierzbicka for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper, and to several anonymous reviewers. I also received helpful comments from a number of people at the Australian Linguistic Society 1995 annual conference, after presenting a version of the paper there. Needless to say, all errors remain my own.