A Construction-Grammar account: 1. Definite null objects in (spoken) French

Lambrecht, Knud; Lemoine, Kevin

doi:10.1075/cal.4.03lam

In:Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Hans C. Boas
[Constructional Approaches to Language 4] 2005
► pp. 13–55

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1. Definite null objects in (spoken) French

A Construction-Grammar account

Knud Lambrecht

Kevin Lemoine

Published online: 14 December 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.4.03lam

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