A word of caution on coercion

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 990-1028

  Ziegeler, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aspect; Coercion; Grammaticalisation; Metonymy; Mismatch; Type shifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847354261     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.07.014     Document Type: Article

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