"This beauty should drink well for 10-12 years": A note on recommendations as semantic middles

Text and Talk

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-73

  Paradis, Carita ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Construction; Middle voice; Semantic roles; Transitivity; Wine language

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149093767     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2009.003     Document Type: Review

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