Descriptive notions vs. grammatical categories: Unrealized states of affairs and 'irrealis'

Language Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-146

  Cristofaro, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Irrealis; Negation; Person marking; Switch reference; Unrealized state of affairs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856250931     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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