N'-ellipsis and the structure of noun phrases in Chinese and Japanese

Journal of East Asian Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-271

  Saito, Mamoru ^a   Lin, T H Jonah ^b   Murasugi, Keiko ^a  

^a NANZAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Classifier; Determiner phrase; Head parameter; Modifying marker; N' ellipsis; Noun phrase; Relative clause

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349120479     PISSN: 09258558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10831-008-9026-8     Document Type: Article

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