Definiteness in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian and some implications for the general structure of the nominal phrase

Lingua

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1401-1427

  Trenkic, Danijela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjectival aspect; Bosnian; Croatian; Definiteness; Demonstrative determiners; DP; Nominal phrase; Serbian; Serbo Croatian; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342999418     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2003.09.005     Document Type: Article

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