The distribution of subject and object agreement and word order type

Studies in Language

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-161

  Siewierska, Anna ^a   Bakker, Dik ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84989376836     PISSN: 03784177     EISSN: 15699978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sl.20.1.06sie     Document Type: Article

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