Pirahã exceptionality: A reassessment

Language

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 355-404

  Nevins, Andrew ^a   Pesetsky, David ^b   Rodrigues, Cilene ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlatives; Cosmology; Culture; Embedding; Myth; Numerals; Parameters; Pirah ; Possessor; Recursion; Universals; WH movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149121645     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0107     Document Type: Article

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