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Publication details [#30700]

Haiman, John. 1993. Life, the universe, and human language (a brief synopsis). Language Sciences 15 (4) : 293–322.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

arbitrariness | categorization | language | language and thought

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper deals with the arbitrariness of linguistic categories, with the question where and how this arbitrariness arises, and with the question whether, considering this arbitrariness, categories really constrain our thinking.