Licensing configurations: The puzzle of head negative polarity items

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 141-149

  Benmamoun, Elabbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 33645795227     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2006.37.1.141     Document Type: Review

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