Ergativity, accusativity, and the order of Merge and Agree

Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 269-308

  Müller, Gereon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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