Valency mismatches and the coding of reciprocity in Australian languages

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 541-597

  Evans, Nicholas ^a   Gaby, Alice ^b   Nordlinger, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Australian languages; Middle; Reciprocal; Reflexive; Transitivity; Valency

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249153077     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LINGTY.2007.033     Document Type: Review

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