When Small Is Many in the Event Domain

This paper pursues the idea that event-internal pluractional verbs are morphologically complex forms that describe non-canonical events and denote in the domain of events constituted by pluralities of phases [Tovena 2010b]. Non-canonicity is understood in comparative terms with respect to the descri...

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Main Author: Lucia M. Tovena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2011-03-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/414