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Diller, Anthony and Juntanamalaga Preecha. 1990. 'Full hearts' and empty pronominals in Thai. Australian Journal of Linguistics 10 (2) : 231–255. 25 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
areal feature | body part term | Malay | metaphorical use of heart | psycho-collocation | semantics | Thai

Abstract

The use of "psycho-collocations" is a feature of the areal lexicon of Southeast Asia (Oey 1990). Thus one can compare the Malay system (Goddard 2001) with that of the neighbouring, but genetically unrelated, language Thai (Cliff Goddard)