On Interpreting ‘Peninsula’ and the Japanese 半島 ‘Half-Island’
People interpret unfamiliar compounds by combining the component concepts into a new, complex concept. When the constituents have foreign roots, as happens in English neoclassical compounds and in Japanese words borrowed from Chinese, interpreters must first assign a semantic gloss to each component...
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LED Edizioni Universitarie
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Geography Notebooks |
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| Online Access: | https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Geography-Notebooks/article/view/3901 |