Constructional sources of implicit agents in sentence comprehension

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 675-702

  Micah, B Goldwater ^a   Arthur, B Markman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction grammar; Event structure; Novel denominal verbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 75449107429     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2009.029     Document Type: Article

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