Late merger of degree clauses

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-45

  Bhatt, Rajesh ^a   Pancheva, Roumyana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antecedent contained deletion (ACD); Comparatives; Conservativity; Extraposition; Interpretation of copies; Scope

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844469206     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438904322793338     Document Type: Review

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