Wholesale late merger: Beyond the A/Ā distinction

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 387-426

  Takahashi, Shoichi ^a   Hulsey, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(anti)reconstruction; Copy theory of movement; Ellipsis; Interpretability; Late merger

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349416877     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2009.40.3.387     Document Type: Article

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