Making sense of corpus data: A case study of verbs of sound

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-64

  Levin, Beth ^a   Atkins, B ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus analysis; Lexical semantics; Syntax semantics interface; Verb meaning; Verbs of sound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989388341     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.2.1.04lev     Document Type: Article

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