Ser and estar from the Cognitive Grammar perspective
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Processing Spanish ser and estar: Discourse and Gender-Based Differences
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عنوان ژورنال: Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1697-0381
DOI: 10.35869/vial.v0i15.85