A contact-universals origins for periphrastic do with special consideration of old English-Celtic contact

Poussa, Patricia

doi:10.1075/cilt.65.23pou

In:Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Edited by Sylvia M. Adamson, Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 65] 1990
► pp. 407–434

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A contact-universals origins for periphrastic do with special consideration of old English-Celtic contact

Patricia Poussa

Published online: 1 January 1990

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.65.23pou

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