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Review published In: Diachronica
Vol. 26:3 (2009) ► pp.448–455

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Gisella Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach. Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Gisella Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008. xvii+220 pp.

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