Antonymous adjectives in Japanese discourse

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2185-2203

  Muehleisen, Victoria ^a   Isono, Maho ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Antonyms; Corpus; Discourse functions; Japanese

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549106391     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.09.037     Document Type: Article

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