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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Main Author: Tjuka Annika
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2024-10-01
Series:Linguistic Typology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2023-0032
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