Constraints on multiple initial embedding of clauses

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-118

  Karlsson, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Clausal embedding; Clause; Constraint; Embedding; Initial embedding; Multiple embedding; Recursion; Self embedding; Syntactic complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347223633     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.12.1.07kar     Document Type: Article

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