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