Cut and break verbs in Ewe and the causative alternation construction

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-250

  Ameka, Felix K ^a   Essegbey, James ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agentivity; Causative inchoative alternation; Constructions; Cut and break; Ewe; Separation events; Verb semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848839192     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.012     Document Type: Article

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