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Review published In: Diachronica
Vol. 8:2 (1991) ► pp.285–292

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Kazumi Manabe. The Syntactic and Stylistic Development of the Infinitive in Middle English. Kazumi Manabe. Fukuoka: Kyushu University Press, 1989. 206 pp.

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Published online: 1 January 1991
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