Some remarks on locality conditions and minimalist grammars

Interfaces + Recursion = Language?: Chomsky's Minimalism and the View from Syntax-Semantics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 161-195

  Gärtner, Hans Martin ^a   Michaelis, Jens ^b  

^a Center for General Linguistics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

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