On the development of transitive expletive constructions in the history of English

Lingua

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 473-495

  Tanaka, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clause structure; EPP feature; Subject clitic; Transitive expletive construction (TEC); Verbal morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039336960     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3841(99)00053-4     Document Type: Article

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