From expressive small clauses to declaratives: 7. The narrowing acquisition path

Potts, Christopher; Roeper, Thomas

doi:10.1075/la.93.09pot

In:The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles-Suárez and Ellen Barton
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 93] 2006
► pp. 183–201

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7. The narrowing acquisition path

From expressive small clauses to declaratives

Christopher Potts

Thomas Roeper

Published online: 13 September 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.93.09pot

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