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Principles of diachronic syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

A. R. Warner
A. R. Warner
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Department of Language, University of York
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 187 - 209
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