Standing divided: Dispositionals and locative predications in two Mayan languages

Linguistics

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 1105-1151

  Bohnemeyer, Jürgen ^a   Brown, Penelope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 36849059119     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LING.2007.033     Document Type: Article

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