Asymmetries between person and number in syntax: A commentary on Baker's SCOPA

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 917-937

  Preminger, Omer ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Effability; Morphology; Number; PCC; Person; Phi features

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655177975     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-011-9155-z     Document Type: Article

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