Talking about the weather: Two construals of precipitation events in English

Weather expressions such as It is raining have proven challenging for linguistic researchers; not only do weather expressions often have special linguistic properties, but languages show considerable variation in the morphosyntactic expression of such events. The main claim pursued here is that, in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beth Levin, Bonnie Krejci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-06-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/794