Regularity in irregularity: Article use in adpositional phrases

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 315-353

  Himmelmann, Nikolaus P ^a  

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Author keywords

Adposition; Agglutination; Albanian; Article; Case; Definiteness; Demonstrative; Fusion; Germanic; Grammaticalization; Inflection; Nkore Kiga; Relational noun; Rumanian; Syntax; Tagalog

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144486298     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.1998.2.3.315     Document Type: Article

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