How long can you go without a verb?: Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures

Biber, Douglas; Clark, Victoria

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English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 223] 2002
► pp. 43–66

Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures

How long can you go without a verb?

Douglas Biber

Victoria Clark

Published online: 18 July 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.223.06bib

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