The interpretive value of object splits

Language Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 425-451

  Ritter, Elizabeth ^a   Rosen, Sara Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accusative case; Agreement; Boundedness; Definiteness; Delimitation; Direct object; Object shift; Quantization; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347032813     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(00)00032-2     Document Type: Article

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