Coming to terms with subjectivity

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-392

  De Smet, Hendrik ^a,b   Verstraete, Jean Christophe ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attitudinal adjectives; Causal conjunctions; Pragmatics semantics distinction; Subjectification; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750156889     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2006.011     Document Type: Article

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