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Part Five - Grammatical Sketches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

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Delia Bentley ,
Ricardo Mairal Usón ,
Wataru Nakamura  and
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
Delia Bentley
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University of Manchester
Ricardo Mairal Usón
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Universidad National de Educación a Distancia, Madrid
Wataru Nakamura
Affiliation:
Tohoku University, Japan
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
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Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar , pp. 821 - 982
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Print publication year: 2023

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