Marriage and marriage: Why defining is seldom ‘just semantics’

McConnell-Ginet, Sally

doi:10.1075/slcs.80.13mcc

In:Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn
Edited by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward
[Studies in Language Companion Series 80] 2006
► pp. 217–240

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Why defining is seldom ‘just semantics’

Marriage and marriage

Sally McConnell-Ginet

Published online: 29 November 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.80.13mcc

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