Reconstructing verb meaning in a second language How English speakers of L2 Dutch talk and gesture about placement

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 221-244

  Gullberg, Marianne ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caused motion; Event representation; Gesture; Placement verbs; Second language acquisition; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450002910     PISSN: 15720268     EISSN: 15720276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/arcl.7.09gul     Document Type: Article

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