Cecilia E. Ford. Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [=Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 9]. xvii + 165 pp. ISBN 0 521 41803 8

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Published online: 1 January 1994

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Cecilia E. Ford. Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [=Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 9]. xvii + 165 pp. ISBN 0 521 41803 8

Cecilia E. Ford. Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [=Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 9]. xvii + 165 pp. ISBN 0 521 41803 8