Construction-specific properties of syntactic subjects in Icelandic and German

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-106

  Barddal, Jóhanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Frequency; German; Icelandic; Oblique subjects; Radical Construction Grammar; Schematicity; Subject tests; Syntactic relations vs. Syntactic roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744910072     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2006.002     Document Type: Article

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