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Article published In: Contrasting contrastive approaches
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[Languages in Contrast 15:1] 2015
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Expressing the source of dispossession acts in French and Spanish

A contrastive study of voler and robar

Published online: 3 April 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.15.1.06eng
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