'She had just cut/broken off her head': Cutting and breaking verbs in Tzeltal

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 319-330

  Brown, Penelope ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Cut and break; Lexical semantics; Separation events; Tzeltal; Verb semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848842731     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.019     Document Type: Article

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