Michel Masson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michel Masson is involved.

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Masson, Michel 2008 Cats and bugs: Some remarks about semantic parallelisms From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations, Vanhove, Martine (ed.), pp. 371–386 | Article

In several European languages lexical items meaning “cat” also designate the “monkey”, the “drunkard” (or “drunkenness”), several “insects” and some supernatural creatures. Those coincidences – here termed “semantic parallelisms” – are in fact intimately associated and constitute a network of… read more