Explaining article-possessor complementarity: Economic motivation in noun phrase syntax

Language

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 227-243

  Haspelmath, Martin ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.2307/417260     Document Type: Article

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