Evidence against Whorfian effects in motion conceptualisation

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1442-1459

  Cardini, Filippo Enrico ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

English; Italian; Language typology; Linguistic relativity; Manner of motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949488605     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.09.017     Document Type: Article

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