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Publication details [#42802]

Botne, Robert. 2005. Cognitive schemas and motion verbs: COMING and GOING in Chindali (Eastern Bantu). Cognitive Linguistics 16 (1) : 43–80.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper presents a detailed semantic study of COME and GO motion verbs in Chindali, an eastern Bantu language. Support is provided for the argument that deixis is not inherent to all these COME and GO expressions.