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Language and smell: traces of synesthesia in premodern learning

Posted on 12 March 2014 by rafvanrooy — 5 Comments

Raf Van Rooy PhD fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) University of Leuven It is well known that, in present-day English, the verb ‘smell’ can obtain a negative connotation when used intransitively; the adjective derived from it, ‘smelly’,…

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