Review published In:
Functions of LanguageVol. 10:2 (2003) ► pp.244–253
Book review
. English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells. From Corpus to Cognition Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. 457 pp. ISBN 3-11-016767-0
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