The discrete nature of syntactic categories: Against a prototype-based account

Syntax and Semantics

Volumn 32, Issue , 2000, Pages 221-250

  Newmeyer, Frederick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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