The semantic categories of cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 133-152

  Majid, Asifa ^a   Bowerman, Melissa ^b   Van Staden, Miriam ^b   Boster, James S ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Categorization; Cut and break; Extension; Intension; Semantic map; Separation events; Typology; Verb semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848907412     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.005     Document Type: Article

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