Language and thought in a multilingual context: The case of isiXhosa

Bilingualism

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 431-441

  Bylund, Emanuel ^a,b   Athanasopoulos, Panos ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

grammatical aspect; isiXhosa; linguistic relativity; motion events; multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902171163     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000503     Document Type: Article

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