Book review
Thomas Hoffmann. English Comparative Correlatives: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface. 276 pp. Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 9781108477215
Article outline
- Chapters 1–2: The importance of corpus studies and construction grammar
- Chapter 3–4: Diachronic study points the way to a synchronic analysis
- Chapters 5–6: Comparative extensions
- Summary
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