Bare phrase structure, label-less trees, and specifier-less syntax. Is Minimalism becoming a dependency grammar?

Linguistic Review

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 315-364

  Osborne, Timothy ^c   Putman, Michael ^a   Gross, Thomas M ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AICHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

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EID: 82055164184     PISSN: 01676318     EISSN: 16133676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/tlir.2011.009     Document Type: Article

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