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Reading Packet References

Bowerman, Melissa (1996). The origins of children's spatial semantic categories: cognitive versus linguistic determinants. In John J. Gumperz & Stephen C. Levinson (eds.), Rethinking linguistic relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crowley, Terry (1995). Inalienable possession in Paamese grammar. In Chappell, Hillary and William McGregor (eds.), The grammar of inalienability. A typological perspective on body parts terms and the part-whole relation. (Empirical approaches to language typology 14). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Fillmore, Charles J. (1982). Towards a descriptive framework for spatial deixis. In R.J. Jarvella and W. Klein (eds.), Speech, place and action. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Labov, William (1973). The boundaries of words and their meanings. In C.J. Bailey and R. Shuy, eds. New ways of analyzing variation in English. Washington: Georgetown University Press.

Lakoff, George (1986). Classifiers as a reflection of mind. In Colette Craig (ed.), Noun classes and categorization. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Levinson, Stephen C. (1996). Relativity in spatial conception and description. In John J. Gumperz & Stephen C. Levinson (eds.), Rethinking linguistic relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Slobin, Dan I. (1996). From "thought and language" to "thinking for speaking". In John J. Gumperz & Stephen C. Levinson (eds.), Rethinking linguistic relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Taylor, John R. (1989). The categorization of colour. In Linguistic categorization: Prototypes in linguistic theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Ungerer, F. & H.-J. Schmid (1996). Levels of categorization. In An introduction to cognitive linguistics. London: Longman.

Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1956). The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language. In John B. Carroll (ed.), Language, Thought and Reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Wierzbicka, Anna (1985). Cups and Mugs. In Lexicography and conceptual analysis. Ann Arbor: Karoma.

Wierzbicka, Anna (1986). Oats and wheat: the fallacy of arbitrariness. In John Haiman (ed.), Iconicity in syntax. Amsterdam: Benjamins.