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A typology of Goal-Source marking in transfer events.

This paper discusses the coding of Goals and Sources from a cross-linguistic perspective and proposes a formal-functional typology based on how animacy and direction affect their coding. The proposed typology comprises three types; Goal vs. Source-languages, animacy and direction-languages, and vari...

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Published in:Studies in Language Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 352 - 376
Main Author: Kittilä, Seppo
Format: Article
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Co. 2022
Subjects:
Goal (Psychology)
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