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Review published In: Studies in Language
Vol. 10:1 (1986) ► pp.167–185

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Kenneth J. Safir. Syntactic Chains. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xiv, 395 pp. $39.50

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 | Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
Published online: 1 January 1986
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