Reciprocal verbs and symmetry

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 261-320

  Siloni, Tal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

"I" reading; Discontinuous construction; Lex syn parameter; Lexical reciprocal verb; Lexicon; Symmetric verb; Syntactic reciprocal verb

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856332805     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-011-9144-2     Document Type: Article

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