Grammatical weight and relative clause extraposition in English

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-74

  Francis, Elaine J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

English syntax.; Grammatical weight; Relative clause extraposition; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949371750     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2010.002     Document Type: Article

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