Focus on Focus A Review Article ofAspects of the Grammar of Focus: A Minimalist Viewby Przemysław Tajsner

• Authors: Aleksander Szwedek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 45-80

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2011-01-21

Contributors

author

Aleksander Szwedek

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10121-009-0035-0