On the distribution of null complementizers

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 527-546

  Bošković, Željko ^a   Lasnik, Howard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacency; Affix hopping; Government; Null complementizer; PF Morphological Merger; Subject object asymmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844581520     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438903322520142     Document Type: Article

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