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Lieselotte Anderwald. Language between description and prescription: Verbs and verb categories in nineteenth-century grammars of English (Oxford Studies in the History of English 6). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 335. ISBN 9780190270674.

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Lieselotte Anderwald. Language between description and prescription: Verbs and verb categories in nineteenth-century grammars of English (Oxford Studies in the History of English 6). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 335. ISBN 9780190270674.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2017

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Department of Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USAdon_chapman@byu.edu

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