Adjectival passives in Hebrew: Evidence for parallelism between the adjectival and verbal systems

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 815-855

  Meltzer Asscher, Aya ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adjectival decausatives; Adjectival passives; Decausativization; Hebrew; Saturation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052218567     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-011-9138-0     Document Type: Article

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