Scandinavian pancake sentences as semantic agreement

Nordic Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-34

  Enger, Hans Olav ^a  

^a Instituttfor sprakog kulturvitenskap   (United States)

Author keywords

default agreement; gender agreement; individuation scale; Keywords agreement hierarchy; semantic (aka referential) agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744995606     PISSN: 03325865     EISSN: 15024717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0332586504001131     Document Type: Article

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