Universals of negative position

Dryer, Matthew S.

doi:10.1075/tsl.17.10dry

In:Studies in Syntactic Typology
Edited by Michael Hammond, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth
[Typological Studies in Language 17] 1988
► pp. 93–124

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Universals of negative position

Matthew S. Dryer

Published online: 1 January 1988

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.17.10dry

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