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Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1] 2024
► pp. 69–73
Commentary

A theory of Ln grammars

One size fits all?

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Article outline
  • 1.Dissolving FH
  • 2.The null theory approach to constructing a theory of Ln grammars: Is it tenable?
  • 3.The role of bi-/multilingual data in shaping theories of grammar
  • References
Published online: 1 February 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23060.gur
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