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2024. Pseudorelative clauses, infinitives, and gerunds with Spanish perception verbs: A comparative view. Syntax
Cinque, Guglielmo
2020. The Syntax of Relative Clauses,
Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach
2023. Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses,
Müller, Christiane & Clara Ulrich Eggers
2022. Island Extractions in the Wild: A Corpus Study of Adjunct and Relative Clause Islands in Danish and English. Languages 7:2 ► pp. 125 ff.
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2024. Pseudorelative clauses, infinitives, and gerunds with Spanish perception verbs: A comparative view. Syntax
Cinque, Guglielmo
2020. The Syntax of Relative Clauses,
Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach
2023. Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses,
Müller, Christiane & Clara Ulrich Eggers
2022. Island Extractions in the Wild: A Corpus Study of Adjunct and Relative Clause Islands in Danish and English. Languages 7:2 ► pp. 125 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 21 april 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.