Publications
Publication details [#46187]
O'Connor, Loretta. 2007. 'Chop, shred, snap apart': Verbs of cutting and breaking in Lowland Chontal. Cognitive Linguistics 18 (2) : 219–230. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper explores typological descriptions of events of object separation and destruction in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, and considers likely changes in these event descriptions from the point of view of recovery of endangered languages.