Events and telicity in classifier predicates: A reanalysis of body part classifier predicates in ASL

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1258-1284

  Grose, Donovan ^a   Wilbur, Ronnie B ^a   Schalber, Katharina ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classifiers; Event structure; Signed languages; Telicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947256269     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2005.06.014     Document Type: Article

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