Zulu ngani 'why': Postverbal and yet in CP

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 805-821

  Buell, Leston Chandler ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bantu; Left periphery; Reason questions; Why; Zulu

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952625199     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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