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Publication details [#5813]

Kuno, Susumu and Etsuko Kaburaki. 1978. Empathy and syntax. Linguistic Inquiry 8 : 627–672.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

empathy | syntactic structure

Journal WWW

www.catchword.com/mitpress/00243892/contp1-1.htm

Annotation

K. and K. show that speaker's empathy is a major factor interacting with syntax, and that it can explain many syntactic phenomena unexplained or unexplored before.