On scrambling: A reply to Bošković and Takahashi

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 635-658

  Bailyn, John Frederick ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

movement; Constraints on movement; Optionality; Reconstruction; Russian syntax; Scrambling; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347818903     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438901753373023     Document Type: Article

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