Some remarks on universal grammar

Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 311-320

  Van Valin, Robert D ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203837887     Document Type: Chapter

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