The syntactic structure of the cleft construction in Malagasy

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 765-823

  Law, Paul ^a  

^a Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adverb daholo 'all'; Binding; Clefts; Coordination; Copula verb; Discontinous phrases; Extraction; Extraposition; Focus particle no; Long distance dependency; Malagasy; Multiple occurrence of adverbs; Placement of negation and adverbials; Predicate restrictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149106734     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-007-9024-y     Document Type: Article

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