On the deficient/strong Opposition in Possessive Systems

Cardinaletti, Anna

doi:10.1075/la.22.03car

In:Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Chris Wilder
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 22] 1998
► pp. 17–54

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On the deficient/strong Opposition in Possessive Systems

Anna Cardinaletti

Published online: 15 October 1998

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.22.03car

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