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Syntactic Representation, Syntactic Levels, and the Notion of Subject

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The Nature of Syntactic Representation

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Perlmutter, D.M. (1982). Syntactic Representation, Syntactic Levels, and the Notion of Subject. In: Jacobson, P., Pullum, G.K. (eds) The Nature of Syntactic Representation. Synthese Language Library, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7707-5_8

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