Introduction: The typology and semantics of locative predicates: Posturals, positionals, and other beasts

Linguistics

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 847-871

  Ameka, Felix K ^a   Levinson, Stephen C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 36849021467     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LING.2007.025     Document Type: Review

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