Motion events in Chinese novels: Evidence for an equipollently-framed language

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1749-1766

  Chen, Liang ^a   Guo, Jiansheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equipollently framed; Mandarin Chinese; Patterns of language use; Typology of motion events

Indexed keywords

EID: 67449104035     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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