The grammar of exchange: A comparative study of reciprocal constructions across languages
Cultures are built on social exchange. Most languages have dedicated grammatical machinery for expressing this. To demonstrate that statistical methods can also be applied to grammatical meaning, we here ask whether the underlying meanings of these grammatical constructions are based on shared commo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00034/full |