Grammatical categories and relations: Universality vs. language-specificity and construction-specificity

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 441-479

  Cristofaro, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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EID: 59949085532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00111.x     Document Type: Review

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