A feature principle for partial agreement

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1541-1565

  Badecker, William ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linearity constraints; Partial agreement; Proximity agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250876838     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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