The unaccusative/unergative distinction: Acquiring linking rules and argument structures in a second language

Sorace, Antonella

doi:10.1075/z.73.13sor

In:The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford
Edited by Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith
[Not in series 73] 1995
► pp. 153–176

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Acquiring linking rules and argument structures in a second language

The unaccusative/unergative distinction

Antonella Sorace

Published online: 2 November 1995

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.73.13sor

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