'Please open the fish': Verbs of separation in Tidore, a Papuan language of Eastern Indonesia

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 297-306

  Van Staden, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cut and break; Papuan languages; Separation events; Tidore; Transitivity alternations; Verb semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848840885     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.017     Document Type: Article

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