The origin of the Welsh: Conjugated infinitive

Diachronica

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 329-350

  Miller, D Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue theory; Inflected (conjugated) infinitives; Reanalysis; Syntactic change; Welsh

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248710924     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.21.2.04mil     Document Type: Article

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