Backward control

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 245-282

  Polinsky, Maria ^a   Potsdam, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward control; Languages of the Caucasus; Obligatory control; Tsez

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645343363     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438902317406713     Document Type: Article

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