Remarks on the basic transitive sentence

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 107-130

  Kittilä, Seppo ^a  

^a Department of General Linguistics ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Argument marking; Transitivity; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042570939     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(00)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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