Locality and accessibility in wh-questions

Roots: Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 185-205

  Hofmeister, Philip ^a   Jaeger, T Florian ^b   Sag, Ivan A ^a   Arnon, Inbal ^a   Snider, Neal ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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