Variation, ambiguity, and noun classes in English

Lingua

Volumn 114, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 1253-1290

  Anttila, Arto ^a   Fong, Vivienne ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Genitive; Noun classes; Optimality Theory; Possessive; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042686663     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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