Melissa F. Bowerman

List of John Benjamins publications in which Melissa F. Bowerman is involved.

Articles

Narasimhan, Bhuvana, Anetta Kopecka, Melissa F. Bowerman, Marianne Gullberg and Asifa Majid 2012 Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspective Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article

Bowerman, Melissa F. 2007 Containment, support, and beyond: Constructing topological spatial categories in first language acquisition The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition, Aurnague, Michel, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu (eds.), pp. 177–203 | Article

Among children’s earliest spatial words are topological forms like ‘in’ and ‘on’. Although these forms name spatial relationships, they also presuppose a classification of ground objects into entities such as “containers” and “surfaces”; hence their relevance for a volume on “spatial entities”.… read more