Gender markedness: The anatomy of a counter-example

Morphology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-166

  Bobaljik, Jonathan David ^a   Zocca, Cynthia Levart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Morphology; Ellipsis; Gender; Identity parallelism requirement; Markedness; Morphological realization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955476019     PISSN: 18715621     EISSN: 18715656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-010-9156-3     Document Type: Article

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