Arguing our way to the Direct Object Restriction on English resultatives

Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 55-82

  Mateu, Jaume ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conflation processes; Lexical syntax; Resultative constructions; Small clause results; The direct object restriction

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844299023     PISSN: 13834924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10828-004-0294-z     Document Type: Review

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