Auxiliary selection and the semantics of unaccusativity

Lingua

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 447-471

  Bentley, Delia ^a   Eythórsson, Thórhallur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auxiliary selection; Lexical semantics; Morphosyntax; Perfective auxiliaries; Unaccusatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742324069     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00068-8     Document Type: Article

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