Pluractionality: A cross‐linguistic perspective.

This paper aims to give a cross‐linguistic overview of pluractionality. Pluractionality is defined as a structural modification of the verb indicating the presence of multiple events. The paper first investigates the functions associated with pluractional markers in the languages of the world and cl...

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Publicado en:Language & Linguistics Compass Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 1 - 36
Autor principal: Mattiola, Simone
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2020
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