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Variation in C: Comparative approaches to the Complementizer Phrase
Edited by Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi
[Linguistic Variation 18:2] 2018
► pp. 205–214

Complementizers and variation in the CP

| Università degli Studi di Padova
| Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The categorial status of COMPs
  • 3.The split-CP hypothesis
  • 4.On the features encoded in the CP
  • 5.On methodologies
  • References
Published online: 1 February 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.00009.gar
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