Predictable and unpredictable sources of variable verb and adverb placement in Scandinavian

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1062-1088

  Thráinsson, Höskuldur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Adverbial modification; Checking; Functional structure; Scandinavian; Verb movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949875543     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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