The maturation of grammatical principles: Evidence from Russian unaccusatives

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-44

  Babyonyshev, Maria ^a   Ganger, Jennifer ^b   Pesetsky, David ^c   Wexler, Kenneth ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chains; Genitive; Language acquisition; Maturation; Negation; Passive; Russian; Specificity; Unaccusative

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544445434     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438901554577     Document Type: Article

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