A Noun is a Noun is a Noun – Or is It? Some Reflections on the Universality of Semantics
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
سال: 1993
ISSN: 2377-1666,0363-2946
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v19i1.1494