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Vol. 40:2 (2016) ► pp.457–467

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Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Graeme Trousdale. Constructionalization and constructional changes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. . [Oxford Studies in Diachronic & Historical Linguistics, 6]. xvii+278 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 967989 8 andPeter Petré. Constructions and environments: Copular, passive, and related constructions in Old and Middle English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. . [Oxford Studies in the History of English, 4]. xiv+295 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 937339 0

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Published online: 1 July 2016
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