Clause structure and verb series

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-33

  Aboh, Enoch Oladé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Argument sharing; EPP; Functional verb; Verb series; Verbobject inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 59849089454     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2009.40.1.1     Document Type: Article

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