The referential status of Clefts

Language

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 891-920

  Hedberg, Nancy ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.2307/417203     Document Type: Article

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