The Language-Specificity of Conceptual Structure: Path, Fictive Motion, and Time Relations

Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bohnemeyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Conceptual structure; Jackendoff; Motion events; Spatial semantics; Spatial structure; Yucatec

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EID: 84872124849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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