Naming motion events in Spanish and English

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 443-462

  Cifuentes Férez, Paula ^a,b   Gentner, Dedre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic semantic patterns; Motion verbs; Novel word mapping; Relational relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845625208     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2006.014     Document Type: Article

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