How to go from “up” to “out”, or from “above” to “behind”: The Mental Manipulation of the Vertical Axis

Ekberg, Lena

doi:10.1075/cilt.150.08ekb

In:Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995
Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 150] 1999
► pp. 69–88

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The Mental Manipulation of the Vertical Axis

How to go from “up” to “out”, or from “above” to “behind”

Lena Ekberg

Published online: 26 June 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.150.08ekb

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