Questions with long-distance dependencies: A usage-based perspective

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 391-425

  Dbrowska, Ewa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceptability judgment experiment; Long distance dependencies; Prototype effects; Unbounded dependencies; Usage based model

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949120588     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2008.015     Document Type: Article

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