Inherent Complement Verbs and the Basic Double Object Construction in Gbe

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 78, Issue , 2010, Pages 177-193

  Essegbey, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Definite Article; Definiteness Restriction; Lexical Item; Object Position; Word Order

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101319994     PISSN: 09244670     EISSN: 22150358     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3189-1_8     Document Type: Chapter

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