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Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 22] 2019
► pp. 79–92

Event representation

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The development of event representation
  • 3.Event representation and linguistics
  • 4.Event representation and event construal
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 23 December 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.22.eve1
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