Frames of Reference and Molyneux's question: cross-linguistic evidence
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3.0 Frames of reference across modalities 3.1 The notion 'spatial frames of reference' 3.2 'Frames of reference' across modalities and the disciplines that study them 3.3 Linguistic Frames of Reference in Cross-Linguistic Perspective 3.3.1 The three linguistic frames of reference 3.3.2 The 'logical structure' of the three frames of reference 3.3.3 Realigning Frames of reference across disciplines and modalities
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