French subject clitics are not agreement markers

Lingua

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1195-1219

  De Cat, Cécile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affix; Clitic; Dislocation; French; Information structure; Subject; Topic

Indexed keywords

EID: 12944265170     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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