Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka & Ilse Wischer. Comparative studies in early Germanic languages: With a focus on verbal categories [Studies in Language Companion Series, 138]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013. vi, 318 pp.

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Published online: 19 December 2014

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Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka & Ilse Wischer. Comparative studies in early Germanic languages: With a focus on verbal categories [Studies in Language Companion Series, 138]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013. vi, 318 pp.

Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka & Ilse Wischer. Comparative studies in early Germanic languages: With a focus on verbal categories [Studies in Language Companion Series, 138]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013. vi, 318 pp.