Motion and location events in German, French and English: A typological, contrastive and pedagogical approach

Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar: A Volume in Honour of René Dirven

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 295-324

  De Knop, Sabine ^a   Dirven, René ^b  

^a Department of Germanic Languages and Linguistics ^*  (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrastive study; Fictive motion; Germanic languages; Language typology; Location schema; Manner of motion; Metaphorical motion; Motion schema; Path of motion; Reduced motion; Romance languages; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85119855094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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