A Semantic Menagerie: The Conceptual Semantics of Ethnozoological Categories
Following the seminal work of Wierzbicka (1985, 2013), this paper proposes and discusses a set of semantic analyses of words from three different levels of the English ethnozoological taxonomic hierarchy (Berlin 1992): creature (unique beginner), bird, fish, snake, and animal (life-form level), dog...
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| Language: | English |
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Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/19346/16160 |