Describing cutting and breaking events in Kuuk Thaayorre

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-272

  Gaby, Alice ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Australian; Cut and break; Detransitivization; Kuuk Thaayorre; Separation events; Verb semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848885426     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.014     Document Type: Article

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