“It was so much fun. It was 20 fun! ”Cognitive and linguistic invitations to the development of scalar predicates

Routes to Language: Studies in Honor of Melissa Bowerman

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 319-443

  Gathercole, Virginia C Mueller ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203837924-22     Document Type: Chapter

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