Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax

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Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax. / Cigana, Lorenzo.

Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière. ed. / András Imrényi; Nicolas Mazziotta. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. p. 216-251 (Studies in Language Companion Series; No. 212).

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Cigana, L 2020, Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax. in A Imrényi & N Mazziotta (eds), Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Studies in Language Companion Series, no. 212, pp. 216-251. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.212.08cig

APA

Cigana, L. (2020). Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax. In A. Imrényi, & N. Mazziotta (Eds.), Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière (pp. 216-251). John Benjamins Publishing Company. Studies in Language Companion Series No. 212 https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.212.08cig

Vancouver

Cigana L. Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax. In Imrényi A, Mazziotta N, editors, Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2020. p. 216-251. (Studies in Language Companion Series; No. 212). https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.212.08cig

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Cigana, Lorenzo. / Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax. Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière. editor / András Imrényi ; Nicolas Mazziotta. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. pp. 216-251 (Studies in Language Companion Series; No. 212).

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