Cut and break verbs in Sranan

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-239

  Essegbey, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causative inchoative alternation; Cut and break; Lexicalization; Separation events; Sranan; Verb semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848817970     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.011     Document Type: Article

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