Objects as human bodies: cross-linguistic colexifications between words for body parts and objects
Many languages have words that denote a human body part and an object, for example, hand, which refers to a part of a person and a watch. As of yet, there is no systematic study on the distribution of these shared names, i.e., colexifications, between two concrete semantic domains in a variety of la...
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De Gruyter
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Linguistic Typology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2023-0032 |
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