The Italian left periphery: A view from locality

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 229-254

  Abels, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cartography; Left periphery; Locality; Relativized Minimality; Syntactic feature structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860366490     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 15309150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/LING_a_00084     Document Type: Article

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