Contrastive focus and nominal ellipsis in Spanish

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 435-457

  Eguren, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Contrast; Determiners; Focus; Nominal ellipsis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450245455     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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