Topicalization, focalization, lexical insertion, and scrambling

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 613-638

  Bošković, Željko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

DP; Focalization; Japanese; Last Resort; Lexical insertion; Russian; Scrambling; Topicalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844554597     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0024389042350514     Document Type: Review

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