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This book studies the folk-taxonomy for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo- European language families. The semantic fields studied are basic color terms, seasons of the year, geometric shapes, the five senses, the folk-psychology of mind and soul, and basic plant and animal life-forms. AndersonOs emphasis is on folk-taxonomies in Old and Middle English, and also on the implications of semantic analysis for our reading of early English literary texts.

Folk-Taxonomies in Early English

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This book studies the folk-taxonomy for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo- European language families. The... Read more

    Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    Publication Date: 01/03/2003
    ISBN13: 9781611472226, 978-1611472226
    ISBN10: 1611472229

    Number of Pages: 587

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    This book studies the folk-taxonomy for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo- European language families. The semantic fields studied are basic color terms, seasons of the year, geometric shapes, the five senses, the folk-psychology of mind and soul, and basic plant and animal life-forms. AndersonOs emphasis is on folk-taxonomies in Old and Middle English, and also on the implications of semantic analysis for our reading of early English literary texts.

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