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Williams, Kemp. 1991. Radial structuring in the Hausa lexicon: A prototype analysis of Hausa 'eat' and 'drink'. Lingua 85 (4) : 321–340.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

meaning | metaphor | verb

Language as a subject

Hausa

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0024-3841

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that the meaning of the Hausa verbs ci 'eat' and shaa 'drink' derives from a central prototypical meaning linked to extensions of this prototypical meaning via metaphorical, image schematic, and other semantic projections.