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Keywords Watercourse metaphors • Geographic variation • Italian • Counter-expectation • Frustrative • Categorization • Language development • Manner-based similitude • Quantitative analysis • Structural arguments • Cunctative • Omission • Clitics • Italian a-phrase construction • classifiers • metaphorical mapping • Classifiers • Russian instrumental binominal constructions • Russian genitive binominal constructions • Russian • watercourse metaphors • Binominal constructions • Cross-Linguistic experiment • Polish • Metaphorical mapping • Repetition • Bilingualism

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/BES/2785-3187/2025/01 | Published March 31, 2026 | Language it, en

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