Convergent evidence for categorial change in French: From subject clitic toagreement marker

Language

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-132

  Culbertson, Jennifer ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Clitics; French; Language acquisition; Language change; Prosody; Subject doubling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951082473     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0183     Document Type: Article

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