Friends and colleagues: Plurality, coordination, and the structure of DP

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 201-270

  Heycock, Caroline ^a   Zamparelli, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conjunction; DP structure; Number; Plurality; Syntax semantics interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144364662     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-004-2442-z     Document Type: Article

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