Revisit relative clause islands in Chinese

Language and Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-48

  Hsu, Chun Chieh Natalie ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Complex NP island; Movement; Relative clauses; Topics

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249130391     PISSN: 1606822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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