Review of Pettersson-Traba, Daniela. 2022. The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English. A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

ISBN: 978-3-11079-2201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792294

Keywords: synonymy, historical semantics, statistical analysis, smell

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Published
2024-07-12
How to Cite
Granados-Meroño, D. (2024). Review of Pettersson-Traba, Daniela. 2022. The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English. A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton . Research in Corpus Linguistics, 12(2), 234–243. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.12.02.12