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Book Title: Unaccusativity: At The Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface
Number of Pages: 350 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Unaccusativity : at the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface
Publisher: MIT Press
Subject: Linguistics / Syntax, Linguistics / Semantics, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 1994
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
Format: Trade Paperback
