The expression of voluntary and caused motion events in Chinese and in English : typological and developmental perspectives

Human spatial understanding is said to be universal and shares the same biological heritage across individuals; on the other, the linguistic systems encoding spatial knowledge vary strikingly. This paradox raises fundamental questions for general issues of (a) language typology and (b) first languag...

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Main Author: Ji, Y.
Published: University of Cambridge 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605597