Experimental evidence for a Minimalist account of English resumptive pronouns

Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  McDaniel, Dana ^a   Cowart, Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraints on movement; Constraints on representation; Economy; Experimental syntax; Minimalism; Resumptive pronoun

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; THEORY;

EID: 0032995818     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00006-2     Document Type: Article

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