Clefting and discourse organization: Comparing Germanic and Romance

Dufter, Andreas

doi:10.1075/slcs.112.05duf

In:Focus and Background in Romance Languages
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Daniel Jacob
[Studies in Language Companion Series 112] 2009
► pp. 83–121

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Clefting and discourse organization: Comparing Germanic and Romance

Andreas Dufter

Published online: 18 June 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.112.05duf

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