Syntax interacts with prosody: The VOS order in Greek

Lingua

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 935-961

  Georgiafentis, Michalis ^a   Sfakianaki, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Focus; Greek; Intonation; Prosody; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842784088     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00099-8     Document Type: Article

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