Be brief and vague! And how Bidirectional Optimality Theory allows for verbosity and precision

Sounds and Systems: Studies in Structure and Change: A Festschrift for Theo Vennemann

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 439-458

  Krifka, Manfred ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110894653.439     Document Type: Chapter

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