Lexical vs. structural case: A false dichotomy

Morphology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 619-654

  Bardal, Jóhanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Default case; Language acquisition; Language change; Productivity; Structural vs. lexical case; Thematic vs. idiosyncratic case; Usage based Construction Grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551584009     PISSN: 18715621     EISSN: 18715656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-010-9174-1     Document Type: Article

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