Children's passive: A view from the by-phrase

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 311-332

  Fox, Danny ^a   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

A chains; Acquisition; By phrase; External role; Maturation; Passive; transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039448271     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438998553761     Document Type: Review

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