Nicola Zimmermann

List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicola Zimmermann plays a role.

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Mitchell, Alice and Nicola Zimmermann 2024 Chapter 4. Mouths, tongues, and ears: Source concepts for ‘language’ across Africa Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein (eds.), pp. 83–103 | Chapter
This paper investigates words for ‘language’ and their possible source concepts in 130 African languages. Radden (2001) noted that words for ‘language’ almost always draw on more basic meanings and proposed a metonymic chain from (i) speech organs to (ii) speaking as activity to (iii) speech as… read more