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The “Epistemic Dative” Construction in French and its Relevance to Some Current Problems in Generative Grammar

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Ruwet, N. (1981). The “Epistemic Dative” Construction in French and its Relevance to Some Current Problems in Generative Grammar. In: Klein, W., Levelt, W. (eds) Crossing the Boundaries in Linguistics. Synthese Language Library, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8453-0_2

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