Flavors of Division

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 650-679

  Mathieu, Éric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algonquian; Celtic; Classifiers; Division; Gender; Number; Plural; Singulative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869205944     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 15309150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00110     Document Type: Article

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