Same source, same target, different paths: from 'person' to reflexive in Umpithamu and other Paman languages

Language Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 599-620

  Verstraete, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Grammaticalization; Paman languages; Reflexives; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749088141     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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