Bas Aarts. Syntactic gradience: The nature of grammatical indeterminacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-921926-1(hb) 978-0-19-921927-8(pb)

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Geoffrey N. Leech | Lancaster University

Published online: 22 October 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.16.2.06lee

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Bas Aarts. Syntactic gradience: The nature of grammatical indeterminacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-921926-1(hb) 978-0-19-921927-8(pb)

Bas Aarts. Syntactic gradience: The nature of grammatical indeterminacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-921926-1(hb) 978-0-19-921927-8(pb)