Brian MacWhinney, Andrej Malchukov & Edith Moravcsik (editors). Competing motivations in grammar and usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxi+445 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-870984-8

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Keren Rice | University of Toronto

Published online: 3 March 2016

https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.39.4.09ric

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Brian MacWhinney, Andrej Malchukov & Edith Moravcsik (editors). Competing motivations in grammar and usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxi+445 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-870984-8

Brian MacWhinney, Andrej Malchukov & Edith Moravcsik (editors). Competing motivations in grammar and usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxi+445 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-870984-8