Gillian F. Hansford

List of John Benjamins publications for which Gillian F. Hansford plays a role.

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Hansford, Gillian F. 2012 Numbers that Chumburung people count on Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 221–252 | Article
Numbers are not very metaphorical according to Dobrovol’skij and Piirainen (2005). Nevertheless they can have both figurative and symbolic significance. Inspired by them, and remembering Comrie’s comment (2005) that linguists often do not record the full numerical system in a language, I… read more