A usage-based approach to argument structure: 'Remember' and 'forget' in spoken English

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-95

  Tao, Hongyin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Complementation; forget; remember; Usage based functionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248706131     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.8.1.04tao     Document Type: Article

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