The mapping of form and interpretation: The case of optional WH-movement in French

Lingua

Volumn 114, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 1090-1132

  Mathieu, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optionality; Predicative indefinites; Scope freezing; Semantic incorporation; Split DPs; WH in situ

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042545678     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2003.07.002     Document Type: Article

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