Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems: Australian subsections in comparison to European days of the week

Koch, Harold

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Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems: Australian subsections in comparison to European days of the week

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2015

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Koch, Harold

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This paper explores some of the principles that affect diachronic change in 'nomenclature systems'; i.e., closed sets of terms within a particular semantic domain, whose members are defined predominantly by their mutual relations within the set.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/65843

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Historical Linguistics 2013

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10.1075/cilt.334

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