Split intransitivity, linking, and lexical representation: The case of Yukatek Maya

Linguistics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-107

  Bohnemeyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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