Getting the inside story learning to express containment in Tzeltal and Hindi

Routes to Language: Studies in Honor of Melissa Bowerman

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 97-130

  Narasimhan, Bhuvana ^a   Brown, Penelope ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203837924-13     Document Type: Chapter

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