The concept of 'universal' and the Case of Japanese

Lingua

Volumn 111, Issue 4-7, 2001, Pages 247-277

  Bouchard, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Case; Japanese; Merge; Universal coding; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348238117     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(00)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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