Up/down, front/back, left/right. A contrastive study of Hausa and English

Hill, Clifford

doi:10.1075/pb.iii.2-3.02hil

In:Here and There: Cross-linguistic Studies on Deixis and Demonstration
Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Wolfgang Klein
[Pragmatics & Beyond III:2-3] 1982
► pp. 13–42

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Up/down, front/back, left/right. A contrastive study of Hausa and English

Clifford Hill

Published online: 1 January 1982

https://doi.org/10.1075/pb.iii.2-3.02hil

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