The Semantics of Get-passives

Downing, Angela

doi:10.1075/cilt.121.07dow

In:Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice
Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 121] 1996
► pp. 179–206

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The Semantics of Get-passives

Angela Downing

Published online: 28 June 1996

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.121.07dow

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