Review published In:
Languages in ContrastVol. 9:2 (2009) ► pp.285–290
Book review
. Talking about Motion: a Crosslinguistic Investigation of Lexicalization Patterns. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2007. x + 182 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 3101 7 . [Studies in Language Companion Series, 91].
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