This construction is too hot to handle: A corpus study of an adjectival construction

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This construction is too hot to handle : A corpus study of an adjectival construction. / Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard.

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association. ed. / Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association. Kyoto : Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2014. p. 740-748.

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Harvard

Jensen, KE 2014, This construction is too hot to handle: A corpus study of an adjectival construction. in JCLA (ed.), Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association. Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Kyoto, pp. 740-748.

APA

Jensen, K. E. (2014). This construction is too hot to handle: A corpus study of an adjectival construction. In J. C. L. A. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (pp. 740-748). Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association.

Vancouver

Jensen KE. This construction is too hot to handle: A corpus study of an adjectival construction. In JCLA, editor, Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association. Kyoto: Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association. 2014. p. 740-748

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Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard. / This construction is too hot to handle : A corpus study of an adjectival construction. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association. editor / Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association. Kyoto : Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2014. pp. 740-748

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