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Review published In: Constructions and Frames
Vol. 14:2 (2022) ► pp.337–345

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Thomas Hoffmann. English Comparative Correlatives: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface. 276 pp. Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 9781108477215

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 | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Published online: 22 December 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.00063.doo
Article outline
  • Chapters 1–2: The importance of corpus studies and construction grammar
  • Chapter 3–4: Diachronic study points the way to a synchronic analysis
  • Chapters 5–6: Comparative extensions
  • Summary
  • References
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