Head movement in linguistic theory

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-109

  Matushansky, Ora ^a  

^a CNRS UMR 7023   (France)

Author keywords

Agree; C selection; Cyclicity; Head movement; Head Movement Constraint; Merge

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645755395     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438906775321184     Document Type: Review

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