The Polysemy of Body Part Terms in Hausa within the Frame of Image Schemas

Body part-terms have been identified as a productive source of figurative lexical meanings as well as grammatical meanings (Heine, et al. 1991). The paper adopts descriptive lexical semantics as a model of approach. This paves the way to examine the relationships that exist between different interpr...

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Main Author: Tijjani Shehu Almajir
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Warsaw University Press 2013-12-01
Series:Studies in African Languages and Cultures
Online Access:https://salc.uw.edu.pl/index.php/SALC/article/view/93