Chapter 3. The Jespersen cycles

van der Auwera, Johan

doi:10.1075/la.146.05auw

In:Cyclical Change
Edited by Elly van Gelderen
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 146] 2009
► pp. 35–72

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Chapter 3. The Jespersen cycles

Johan van der Auwera

Published online: 29 July 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.146.05auw

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