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Icelandic case-marked CP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2018

Anton Karl Ingason*
Affiliation:
University of Iceland

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© Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique 2018 

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, Jim Wood, Höskuldur Þráinsson, the editors of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics and two anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments and suggestions, as well as the audience at the 31st Rask conference of the Icelandic Linguistic Society and the Linguistics Institute of the University of Iceland where parts of this material were presented. All mistakes are mine.

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