The correlation between motion event encoding and path verb lexicon size in the Indo-European language family

Folia Linguistica Historica

Volumn 48, Issue Historica vol. 35, 2014, Pages 307-358

  Verkerk, Annemarie ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Indo European; Motion events; path verbs; PGLS; phylogenetic comparative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961289083     PISSN: 0168647X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/flih.2014.009     Document Type: Article

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