Evidence from children and adults: To get or to be? Use and acquisition of get- versus be-passives

Meints, Kerstin

doi:10.1075/cilt.243.10mei

In:Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 243] 2003
► pp. 123–150

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To get or to be? Use and acquisition of get- versus be-passives

Evidence from children and adults

Kerstin Meints

Published online: 17 July 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.243.10mei

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