Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and its exceptions

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-332

  Cinque, Guglielmo ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

DP; Nominal modifiers; Typology; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844473126     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0024389054396917     Document Type: Article

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