Motion Encoding in Russian and English: Moving Beyond Talmy's Typology

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 99, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 32-48

  Pavlenko, Aneta ^a   Volynsky, Maria ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manner encoding; Motion lexicon; Russian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923030315     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/modl.12177     Document Type: Article

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