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Ayumi Miura . Middle English verbs of emotion and impersonal constructions: Verb meaning and syntax in diachrony (Oxford Studies in the History of English). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp xvii + 290. ISBN 978-0-19-994715-7.

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Ayumi Miura . Middle English verbs of emotion and impersonal constructions: Verb meaning and syntax in diachrony (Oxford Studies in the History of English). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp xvii + 290. ISBN 978-0-19-994715-7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

Belén Méndez-Naya
Belén Méndez-Naya*
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Department of English and German, Facultade de Filoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spainbelen.mendez@usc.es
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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 155 - 161
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