Merge and move: Wh-dependencies revisited

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 161-193

  Adger, David ^a   Ramchand, Gillian ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Base generation; Movement; Relatives; Scottish Gaelic; Syntax semantics interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644453655     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0024389053710729     Document Type: Review

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