Diagnosing double object constructions in Bangla/Bengali

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1067-1082

  Bhattacharya, Tanmoy ^a   Simpson, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangla; Ditransitives; Double object constructions; Japanese; Universal base hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953082832     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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