The causative alternation

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 641-681

  Schäfer, Florian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

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EID: 63149098449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00127.x     Document Type: Article

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