A quantitative analysis of the use of posture verbs by French-speaking learners of Dutch

This article presents a study of the use of the Dutch cardinal posture verbs staan (‘stand’), liggen (‘lie’) and zitten (‘sit’) by French-speaking learners of Dutch; the data is drawn from a corpus of semi-spontaneous oral picture descriptions. Due to the typological differences between French and D...

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Main Authors: Maarten Lemmens, Julien Perrez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2012-12-01
Series:CogniTextes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/609