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Category Change from a Constructional Perspective
Edited by Kristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede
[Constructional Approaches to Language 20] 2018
► pp. 3–12

Category change from a constructional perspective

Introduction

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Published online: 22 March 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.20.01van
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