English expletive constructions are not infected

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 467-484

  Schütze, Carson T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; English pronouns; Expletive constructions; Grammatical virus; Locative inversion; Processing effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 24444476194     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438999554156     Document Type: Article

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