Negative cycles

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-243

  Van Gelderen, Elly ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economy; Grammaticalization; Indefinite; Linguistic cycle; Negation; Negative concord; Negative verbs; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949239704     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2008.037     Document Type: Article

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