Acceptability and processing of long-distance dependencies in Danish

Nordic Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-107

  Poulsen, Mads ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Danish; Extraction; Grammaticality; Island constraints; Judgment; Language processing; Long distance dependencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749123008     PISSN: 03325865     EISSN: 15024717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0332586508001832     Document Type: Article

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