The semantics of the Spanish subjunctive: Its use in the natural semantic metalanguage

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-69

  Travis, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

indexicality; natural semantic metalanguage; NSM; Spanish; subjunctive; universal grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 30044450030     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2003.002     Document Type: Article

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