Review published in:
Diachronica
Vol. 33:1 (2016) ► pp. 131–137
Book review

Kristin Bech & Kristine Gunn Eide. Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages
(Edited by) Kristin Bech & Kristine Gunn Eide. [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014. vii, 421 pp.

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| Birmingham City University
Published online: 12 May 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.33.1.05ing
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