Information structure and syntactic structure

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1167-1187

  Birner, Betty J ^a   Ward, Gregory ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73649114602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00146.x     Document Type: Article

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