Morphological underspecification meets oblique case: Syntactic and processing effects in German

Lingua

Volumn 111, Issue 4-7, 2001, Pages 465-514

  Bayer, Josef ^a   Bader, Markus ^a   Meng, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case; Dative; German; Germanic; Kase phrase; Morpho syntax; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011451184     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(00)00041-3     Document Type: Article

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