On the syntax of possessor extraction

Lingua

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 743-772

  Gavruseva, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature checking; Parametric variation; Possessor extraction; Possessor movement; Structure of DP; Syntactic constraints; Wh possessive phrases

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040522323     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3841(00)00015-2     Document Type: Article

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