Argument realization in Hindi caregiver-child discourse

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 461-495

  Narasimhan, Bhuvana ^a   Budwig, Nancy ^b   Murty, Lalita ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argument realization; Discourse pragmatics; Ellipsis; Ergative construction; Hindi; Input; L1 acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 12444292258     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2004.01.005     Document Type: Article

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