The acquisition of finite complement clauses in English: A corpus-based analysis

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 97-142

  Diessel, Holger ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 84945562786     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.12.2.97     Document Type: Article

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