Prepositions and Results in Italian and English: An Analysis from Event Decomposition

Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

Volumn 32, Issue , 2005, Pages 81-105

  Folli, Raffaella ^a   Ramchand, Gillian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

cause; event structure; goal; motion; process; Resultatives; selection; telos

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145187943     PISSN: 18730043     EISSN: 22151788     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3232-3_5     Document Type: Chapter

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