Descriptive and explanatory markedness

Morphology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 223-245

  Harbour, Daniel ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature geometry; Features; Markedness (implications); Number; Person

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955476582     PISSN: 18715621     EISSN: 18715656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-010-9167-0     Document Type: Article

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