Cyclic agree

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-73

  Béjar, Susana ^a   Rezac, Milan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Agree; Agreement displacement; Cyclicity; Features; Person hierarchies

Indexed keywords

EID: 59849107951     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2009.40.1.35     Document Type: Article

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