Recursive misrepresentations: A reply to Levinson (2013)

Language

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 515-528

  Legate, Julie Anne ^a   Pesetsky, David ^b   Yang, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Center embedding; Discourse; Embedding; Parataxis; Recursion; Statistics; Subordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903183849     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2014.0034     Document Type: Article

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