Publication details
A Note on the Semantics of Body Part Movements
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| Year of publication | 1997 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Brno Studies in English 23 |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | semantics; body part movements. |
| Description | The paper shows that body part movements are not instances of actions whose effects pass from the agent to the patient. Body parts are not affected participants in the traditional sense. |