Cutting, breaking, and tearing verbs in Hindi and Tamil

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-205

  Narasimhan, Bhuvana ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cut and break; Hindi; Separation events; Tamil; Verb semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848865627     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.008     Document Type: Article

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