Too abstract for agents? The syntax and semantics of agentivity in abstracts of English research articles

Mediating between Concepts and Grammar

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 433-456

  Dorgeloh, Heidrun ^a   Wanner, Anja ^a  

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