Rethinking complementizer agreement: Agree with a case-checked goal

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 393-412

  Carstens, Vicki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

(Complementizer) Agree(ment); Antisymmetry; Case (deletion); Cp recursion; Dutch; Frisian

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244402514     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438903322247533     Document Type: Article

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