Functional constraints on inversion in English and Farsi

Language Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 127-138

  Birner, Betty ^a   Mahootian, Shahrzad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction; Discourse; Farsi; Function; Inferrable; Inversion; Topicalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040056202     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0388-0001(96)00011-3     Document Type: Article

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