Emilio Bonvini

List of John Benjamins publications in which Emilio Bonvini is involved.

Article

Bonvini, Emilio 2008 About 'Eating' in a few Niger-Congo languages From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations, Vanhove, Martine (ed.), pp. 267–289 | Article

This article is a systematisation of the semantic notion of “eating” in Niger-Congo languages. It is based on lexical material published in dictionaries. It shows, contrary to Gouffé (1966) that “eat”, in its semantic extensions, is not basically a “controlled activity”, but is also an “undergone… read more