On the Semantics of Subjunctive Complements

Farkas, Donka F.

doi:10.1075/cilt.91.07far

In:Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from the XX Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Ottawa, April 10–14, 1990
Edited by Paul Hirschbühler and E.F.K. Koerner †
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 91] 1992
► pp. 69–104

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On the Semantics of Subjunctive Complements

Donka F. Farkas

Published online: 1 January 1992

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