The role of semantics, pre-emption and skew in linguistic distributions: The case of the un-construction

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Ibbotson, Paul ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diachronic use; Generalizations; Pre emption; Skew; Verbal semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891675341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00989     Document Type: Article

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