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A Mountain of Evidence? A Corpus Study of the Argument Structure of Transferred Senses of Nouns in English Cover

A Mountain of Evidence? A Corpus Study of the Argument Structure of Transferred Senses of Nouns in English

By: Jakub Sláma  
Open Access
|Nov 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0008 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4287 | Journal ISSN: 0021-5597
Language: English
Page range: 85 - 94
Published on: Nov 27, 2025
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