Spatial strategies in the description of complex configurations

Discourse Processes

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 237-266

  Tenbrink, Thora ^a   Coventry, Kenny R ^b,c   Andonova, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies Delmenhorst   (Germany)

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EID: 79956221470     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2010.549452     Document Type: Article

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