Review published In: Diachronica
Vol. 33:1 (2016) ► pp.131–137
Book review
. Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014. vii, 421 pp.
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